"How wrong people always were when they said:……" — Kingsley Amis
"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 exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear."
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42 Quotes by Kingsley Amis
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's…
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
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The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic…
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in…
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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