Sir Kingsley Amis Quotes

1922 - 1995

English   novelist   and   poet.   He   achieved   success   with   his irreverent   novel   Lucky  Jim   (1954),   and   went   on   to   write   a substantial body of novels, poetry and non-fiction.

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

One Fat Englishman, ch. 8 (1963)

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The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1953  Lucky  Jim, ch.6.

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He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— Lucky Jim, ch. 25 (1953)

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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1957  'Socialism and the Intellectuals'.

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More will mean worse.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1960  On expanding university intake, in Encounter,  Jul.

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

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1963  One Fat Englishman, ch.14.

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I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1979  Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle,  Jun.

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The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1984  Stanley and the Women, ch.2.

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Booze, of course, and then curtains.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1986  His response to being asked how he would spend his Booker Prize cheque, 22 Oct.

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Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

Sir Kingsley Amis
— 1960  Take A Girl LikeYou, ch.5.

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