Kingsley Amis
Title: Sir Kingsley William Amis
Full Name: Kingsley William Amis
Birthdate: April 16, 1922
Birthplace: Clapham, London, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: October 22, 1995
Occupation: Author and Lecturer
Profile: Awarded the Booker Prize in 1986. Best known for
Lucky Jim. Knighted in 1990.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis
Number of Quotes: 28
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn’t allow it to spoil your lunch.
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had
been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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.
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Lucky Jim
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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.
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
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.
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
The Scandinavians are dear people but they’ve never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of
failure, and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover.
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it ... it knew at once and
sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you.
You can lead a horse to water (but a pencil must be led).
Last on Earth
