Kingsley Amis Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him.
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON
Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.
Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.
The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.
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.
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it
For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that is should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.
Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it.
To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration.
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in?
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...