"It is natural and harmless in English to……" — Kingsley Amis
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42 Quotes by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis has 42 quotes on this site.
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it…
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One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a…
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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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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More End Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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