English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Kingsley Amis Quotes

Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: "Shall we go straight in?

Kingsley Amis

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time. Lawrence Eagleburger
I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them. Nelson Piquet
John Irving quote: " . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert..."
. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . . John Irving
Pablo Picasso quote: "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
George Eliot quote: "But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the..."
But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees... George Eliot
Gamal Abdel Nasser quote: "What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force. Gamal Abdel Nasser
Henry Ford quote: "Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always..."
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. Henry Ford
Sydney Smith quote: "Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others..."
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. Sydney Smith
Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. Edith Wharton
It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. Craig Ferguson
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well. Paul Harris
Doug Coupland quote: "You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. Doug Coupland
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. Audre Lorde
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a..."
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? Henry David Thoreau
The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous - so full of hope. Joseph Conrad