“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
Kingsley Amis livre Lucky Jim
Source: Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis: 32 citations0 J'aime
Kingsley Amis: Citations en anglais
“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”
Kingsley Amis livre Lucky Jim
Source: Lucky Jim (1954)
Kingsley Amis livre Take a Girl Like You
Source: Take a Girl Like You (1960), Ch. 17
Ronnie Appleyard's thoughts after his first full sex with Simon (Simona) Quick in Ch. 2, p. 81
I Want It Now (1968)
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 11, p. 158
Kingsley Amis livre Jake's Thing
pg. 140
Jake's Thing (1978)
“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”
Attributed in Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993) by Giles Gordon, and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 14
Kingsley Amis livre The Old Devils
The Old Devils (1986)
"Phoenix Too Frequent" Critique of D. H. Lawrence
What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions (1970)
“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”
"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)
“There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)”
Kingsley Amis livre Stanley and the Women
Stanley and the Women (1984)
Kingsley Amis livre Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim (1954)
Kingsley Amis livre Take a Girl Like You
Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)
“Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.”
The speaker is Patrick Standish, copyrighting his own witticism.
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 17, p. 248
"New Approach Needed", about the Second Coming, (p. 27)
A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967 (1968)
Kingsley Amis livre The Old Devils
The Old Devils (1986)
"Ode to Me", (p. 134)
Collected Poems, 1944-1979 (1979)
“Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.”
Kingsley Amis livre The Old Devils
The Old Devils (1986)
“Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.”
Kingsley Amis livre Take a Girl Like You
Source: Take a Girl Like You (1960), Ch. 17
Encounter magazine (July 1960) (referring to the proposed expansion of higher education)
Kingsley Amis The Green Man
Maurice Allington in Ch. 2
The Green Man (1969)
Kingsley Amis The Green Man
Maurice Allington in Ch. 2
The Green Man (1969)
