"Let me assure you that the humourless as……" — Martin Amis
"Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything."
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123 Quotes by Martin Amis
Martin Amis has 123 quotes on this site.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going…
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in…
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the…
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45…
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens…
— Barbara Jordan
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Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
— Gioachino Rossini
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It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current…
— Al Gore
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As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.
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We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated…
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I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the…
— Adolf Hitler
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that…
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