I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

About Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.

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

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

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

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

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

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

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

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

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

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

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.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

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

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)