Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis Quotes
54 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
Kingsley Amis
Source
Report...
Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.
Kingsley Amis
Source
Report...
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Kingsley Amis
Source
Report...
All his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.
Kingsley Amis
1
2
3
Quote of the day
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Kingsley Amis
Born:
April 16, 1922
Died:
October 22, 1995
(aged 73)
Bio:
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism.
Known for:
Lucky Jim (1954)
The Old Devils (1986)
The Alteration (1976)
One Fat Englishman (1963)
Take a Girl Like You (1960)
Most used words:
life
love
people
stay
wrong
wine
worth
sense
writing
man
point
Kingsley Amis on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Kingsley Amis Quotes
Kingsley Amis Short Quotes
Quotes about Kingsley Amis
English Novelist Quotes
Novelist Quotes
20th-century Novelist Quotes
Related People
Ian Fleming
English Journalist
Family
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Spouse
Martin Amis
Son
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes