Best Kingsley Amis Quotes
- Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. Consciousness
- Nice things are nicer than nasty ones. Inspirational
- I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is. Fault
- The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. Funny
- Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They… Bed
- When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to… All
- Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any… Any
- Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. Decisively
- How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it… Better
- Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. Inspirational
- He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. Eyeballs
- It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. Children
- His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. Been
- No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. Children
- There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. End
- It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. Children
- No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare Geriatric