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Kingsley Amis Quotes

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.
Kingsley Amis

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis

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

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
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 scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunks of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
Kingsley Amis

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

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

Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1922-04-22
Year of Death:
1995
Nationality:
English