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Kingsley Amis Quotes: "The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them."

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing."

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




Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music."

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong."

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.




Kingsley Amis Quotes: "A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with."

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.




Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work."

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is."

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them."

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence."

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




Kingsley Amis Quotes: "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."

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.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is."

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Cats are only human, they have their faults."

Cats are only human, they have their faults.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Nice things are nicer than nasty ones."

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "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."

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

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy."

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse."

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for."

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto."

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that."

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root."

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.



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

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat."

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization."

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "More always means worse."

More always means worse.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time."

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do."

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "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."

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.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer."

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



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen."

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction."

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food."

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover."

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it."

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap."

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!"

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?"

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?



Kingsley Amis Quotes: "Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free."

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.



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."

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