Been Quote by Kingsley Amis

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…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

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

“There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.”

— Kingsley Amis

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

— Kingsley Amis

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

“{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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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