Kingsley Amis Quotes

Kingsley Amis — English Novelist born on April 22, 1922, died on October 22, 1995

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was 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... (wikipedia)

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

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

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.