Quotes by : Kingsley Amis

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it....

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff,....

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

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

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from....

There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full....

... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really....

Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the....