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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. — Kingsley Amis

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed. — Kingsley Amis

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. — Kingsley Amis

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat. — Kingsley Amis

More always means worse. — Kingsley Amis

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. — Kingsley Amis

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it. — Kingsley Amis

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction. — Kingsley Amis

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 — Kingsley Amis

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'
Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. — Kingsley Amis

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. — Kingsley Amis

There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed. — Kingsley Amis

It is a poor mind that is never in conflict. — Kingsley Amis

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times. — Kingsley Amis

Let complication thrive. — Kingsley Amis

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

America takes her writers too seriously. — Kingsley Amis

The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth. — Kingsley Amis

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 — Kingsley Amis

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
Love never lets you go. — Kingsley Amis

For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved. — Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for. — Kingsley Amis

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. — Kingsley Amis

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. — Kingsley Amis

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. — Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. — Kingsley Amis

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer. — Kingsley Amis

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch. — Kingsley Amis

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them. — Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. — Kingsley Amis

With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken. — Kingsley Amis

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones. — Kingsley Amis

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. — Kingsley Amis

Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf. — Kingsley Amis

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration. — Kingsley Amis

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy. — Kingsley Amis

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for. — Kingsley Amis

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another. — Kingsley Amis

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. — Kingsley Amis

Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in? — Kingsley Amis

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? — Kingsley Amis

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. — Kingsley Amis

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. — Kingsley Amis

There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable. — Kingsley Amis

SF's NO GOOD!
They bellow 'til we're deaf
But =this= is good
Well, then, it's not SF! — Kingsley Amis

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. — Kingsley Amis

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. — Kingsley Amis

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. — Kingsley Amis

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

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. — Kingsley Amis

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis

You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation. — Kingsley Amis

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ... — Kingsley Amis

{Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted. — Kingsley Amis

Cats are only human, they have their faults. — Kingsley Amis