Kingsley Amis Quotes
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Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
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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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More always means worse.
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More will mean worse.
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It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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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 once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.
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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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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
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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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Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.
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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 no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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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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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.