"The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building……" — Kingsley Amis
"The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must."
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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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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and…
— Lee Atwater
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on…
— Pearl Bailey
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
— Pierre Bayle
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be…
— Alfred Adler
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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United we stand, divided we fall.
— Aesop
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Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
— Tom Brokaw
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot…
— Abdallah II
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
— Dan Brown
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