Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

- Kingsley Amis

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

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 Part…

- Kingsley Amis

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

- Kingsley Amis

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

- Kingsley Amis

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.

- Kingsley Amis