Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBEwas an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 April 1922
CityLondon, England
Kingsley Amis quotes about
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
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.
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.
Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.