Explore Quotes by Kingsley Amis

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

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

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

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

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

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

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

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

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.