As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

- A. N. Wilson

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

- A. N. Wilson

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female popul…

- A. N. Wilson

A busybody's work is never done.

- A. N. Wilson

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a conditio…

- A. N. Wilson

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming …

- A. N. Wilson

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that…

- A. N. Wilson

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

- A. N. Wilson

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradi…

- A. N. Wilson