Quotes by Kingsley Amis

About Kingsley Amis:

Sir Kingsley William Amis is the father of British novelist Martin Amis.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake's vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children's art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specifi...

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People get themselves all steamed up about weather they're in love or not. They ought to realize that the love part is perfectly easy; the hard part is working out, not about love, but about what they're going to do. The difference is that they can g...

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A German wine label is one of the things life’s too short for.

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Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.

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To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.

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A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal ...

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameKingsley Amis
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist, poet, critic, teacher
  • AliasesSir Kingsley William Amis
  • BornApril 16, 1922
  • DiedOctober 22, 1995
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScience Fiction Writer; Poet; Short Story Writer; Novelist; Literary Critic; Writer
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Cholmondeley Award