The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No;… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“{Rogers} sexual aim is “to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
