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Kingsley Amis Quotes

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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.  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’ve been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn’t produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That’s a point in one’s favor  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) A blonde girl wearing a man’s shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) 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.  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Nice things are nicer than nasty ones  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Cats are only human, they have their faults  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) It’s a letdown if the comedian doesn’t finally actually really sit on his hat  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) 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  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) Death has got something to be said for it: There’s no need to get out of bed for it; wherever you may be, they bring it to you, free  (Kingsley Amis Quotes) 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  (Kingsley Amis Quotes)
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