Angus Wilson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

8 Famous Quotes by Angus Wilson
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“The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.”
Heroism Quotes
“Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self-torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Once a Catholic always a Catholic.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“She was more than ever proud of the position of the bungalow, so almost in the country.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction,' she said. 'It's different with us. I haven't been to mass for years, I've got every mortal sin on my conscience, but I know when I'm doing wrong. I'm still a Catholic.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.”
Miscellaneous Quotes