Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.
Kingsley Amis Quotes
1922–1995 England
Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, teacher, and father of novelist Martin Amis.
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Also known as: Amis, Sir Kingsley, Sir Kingsley Amis, Sir Kingsley William Amis
40 quotes
It isn't class differences that keep people apart, it's thinking they bloody matter.
The Biographer's Moustache (1995)
Nobody, however learned, however wise, can stand in the way of regress.
The Russian Girl (1992)
The rewards for being sane are not very many but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Stanley and the Women (1984)
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)
Girl, 20 (1971)
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993)
Girl, 20 (1971)
Ending Up (1974)
'Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.'
Difficulties with Girls (1988)
Jake's Thing (1978)
Then, because it was every cinematic doctor's exit line, the doctor added, "I'll see myself out."
Ending Up (1974)
Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.
Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.
Take a Girl Like You (1960)
As soon as originality became important, the days of artistic merit or excellence were numbered.
The Russian Girl (1992)
That stuff you read didn't condition you, you chose it because it was what you wanted to hear.
You Can't Do Both (1994)
The Green Man (1969)
Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
The Old Devils (1986)
What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions (1970)
There isn't another other sex.
Stanley and the Women (1984)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kingsley Amis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.