Kingsley Amis Quotes

Sex stops when you pull up your pants,Love never lets you go.

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

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

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

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

I don’t say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they’re drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they’re not different at all–that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

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

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

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.

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

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

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