Kingsley Amis Quotes

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when i...

Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothi...

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily edu...

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

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

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full...

Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the...

When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must b...

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself a...

A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, a...

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

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more o...

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

... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r...

Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him th...

Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to...

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

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

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuf...

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know f...

America takes her writers too seriously.