Kingsley Amis Quotes

Booze, of course, and then curtains.

Alun’s life was coming to consist more and more exclusively of being told at dictation speed what he knew.

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

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

More will mean worse.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don’t let me die in harness.