Quotes by : Kingsley Amis

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

Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the....

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

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing....

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

Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothing.....

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

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....

America takes her writers too seriously.