Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBEwas an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 August 1913
appetite effort endless envy foot knows trapped ugliness
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.
feet envy effort
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
opportunity people world
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.
pride self feet
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. 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.
found-you found
Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
catholic
Once a Catholic always a Catholic.