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Kingsley Amis Quotes

Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
English Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 22, 1922
Date of Death:
October 22, 1995
Nationality:
English
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Kingsley Amis

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

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

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

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

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis

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

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

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

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

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

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis

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

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

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


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