Quotes by Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher

Alive from: 1922-1995

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary)

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  A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

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  Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

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  Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

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  Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

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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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  I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

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  It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

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  It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

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  Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

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  Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
  Source: Stanley And The Women (2011) 266

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  More always means worse.

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  Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
  Source: Memoirs (1991)

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  Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
  Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990)

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  Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

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  Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.