Kingsley Amis Quotes

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.