Kingsley Amis Quotes

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

- Kingsley Amis

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

- Kingsley Amis

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

- Kingsley Amis

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

- Kingsley Amis

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

- Kingsley Amis

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

- Kingsley Amis

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

- Kingsley Amis

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis

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

- Kingsley Amis