Quotes from Kingsley Amis

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

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