Kingsley Amis Quotes (21 Quotes)


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

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

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

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

    Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.


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

    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.

    I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

    One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

    No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare

    Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

    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.

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

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

    There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

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

    Women don't seem to think it's good enough They write about it

    It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunks of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

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

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

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


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