Kingsley Amis Quotes

"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: End)

"Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Love, Sex)

"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."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Action, Virtue, Criticism, First, Self)

"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Man, Trying)

"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
(Related: Religion, Benefits)

"Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Incompetence, Journalism, Laziness)

"It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Life, People, Children, Wonder)

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Writing)

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

"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Night)

"He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Faith, Church, Sense)

"He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again."
- Kingsley Amis

"No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Life, People, Children, Wonder)