Quotes by : Kingsley Amis

A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate,....

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....

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....

When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be....

Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to....

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at....

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

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