151 Quotes by Kingsley Amis

"There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable."

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

"The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times."

"I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous."

"Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf."

"It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article's niggling mindlessness, its funeral parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems."

"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."

"They made a silly mistake though,’ the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory."

"SF's NO GOOD!They bellow 'til we're deafBut =this= is goodWell, then, it's not SF!"

"A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad."