Quotes by Amis, Kingsley




Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis..


"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."

Amis, Kingsley on obesity    Share

"Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics."

Amis, Kingsley on politics    Share

"He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic."

Amis, Kingsley on churches    Share

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