Kingsley Amis Quotes
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.
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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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More always means worse.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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You can't screw the rich, something in Ronnie muttered as Miss Quick got off him with quite as much alacrity as she had got on him. You have to let them screw you. Or else you leave out screwing altogether.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
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The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.