... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r...
KINGSLEY AMIS Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
KINGSLEY AMIS Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more o...
KINGSLEY AMIS He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
KINGSLEY AMIS Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be le...
KINGSLEY AMIS The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded with...
KINGSLEY AMIS Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
KINGSLEY AMIS It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Ma...
KINGSLEY AMIS Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven...
KINGSLEY AMIS He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
KINGSLEY AMIS I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ca...
KINGSLEY AMIS A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as...
KINGSLEY AMIS I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâtÃ�...
KINGSLEY AMIS There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
KINGSLEY AMIS It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
KINGSLEY AMIS Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence
KINGSLEY AMIS Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
KINGSLEY AMIS If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
KINGSLEY AMIS He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic
KINGSLEY AMIS One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be...
KINGSLEY AMIS I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a ...
KINGSLEY AMIS I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ca...
KINGSLEY AMIS Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for...
KINGSLEY AMIS He thought to himself now that if ever he went into the brewing business his posters would have writ...
KINGSLEY AMIS He put a fresh sheet in and, after spending a few moments wishing he were doing something quite diff...
KINGSLEY AMIS Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in
KINGSLEY AMIS I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
KINGSLEY AMIS Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
KINGSLEY AMIS There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.
KINGSLEY AMIS Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself i...
KINGSLEY AMIS He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in com...
KINGSLEY AMIS Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
KINGSLEY AMIS I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You ...
KINGSLEY AMIS Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...
KINGSLEY AMIS Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio...
MARTIN AMIS You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star
MARTIN AMIS I am a novelist,
MARTIN AMIS I hire tea by the tea bag.
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn
MARTIN AMIS Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
MARTIN AMIS Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
MARTIN AMIS Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
MARTIN AMIS Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
MARTIN AMIS Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addict...
MARTIN AMIS Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular w...
MARTIN AMIS More will mean worse.
MARTIN AMIS Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo...
MARTIN AMIS Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thr...
MARTIN AMIS All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiar...
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
MARTIN AMIS It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most ave...
MARTIN AMIS Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you atten...
MARTIN AMIS Some people would rather be right than free.
VIVIAN AMIS The less you know, the more you will be known
The less you want, the more you will have
Th...
VIVIAN AMIS The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.
MARTIN AMIS People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious bra...
MARTIN AMIS I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...
MARTIN AMIS The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a chara...
MARTIN AMIS YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.
VIVIAN AMIS Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual ...
MARTIN AMIS The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything abo...
MARTIN AMIS The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working c...
MARTIN AMIS If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter...
MARTIN AMIS Friendship is like a flower. It needs daily love and care to blossom. If you forget to give it water...
LILY AMIS Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
MARTIN AMIS When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral visi...
MARTIN AMIS It doesn’t kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it!
LILY AMIS Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".
VIVIAN AMIS What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path ...
MARTIN AMIS Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much hu...
MARTIN AMIS The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ...
MARTIN AMIS What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it ...
MARTIN AMIS And while Trish stared - stared, as it now seemed, into her own eyes - Guy held her hand and watched...
MARTIN AMIS Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Blac...
MARTIN AMIS What saddened and incensed her was the abdication of power, so craven, the surrender so close to hom...
MARTIN AMIS And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. You go...
MARTIN AMIS Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his v...
MARTIN AMIS Yet no one seemed to have thought through the implications of a world in which everyone cheated. The...
MARTIN AMIS He frowned. She laughed. He brightened. She pouted. He grinned. She flinched. Come on: we don’t do...
MARTIN AMIS Imagine the terrestrial timespan as an outstretched arm: a single swipe of an emery-board, across th...
MARTIN AMIS Character is destiny
MARTIN AMIS ...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw bein...
MARTIN AMIS The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. ...
MARTIN AMIS Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a ma...
MARTIN AMIS Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.
MARTIN AMIS People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge...
MARTIN AMIS You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to he...
MARTIN AMIS While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—...
MARTIN AMIS Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as...
MARTIN AMIS And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
MARTIN AMIS Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the...
MARTIN AMIS The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went ...
MARTIN AMIS When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to ...
SUZY AMIS What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
VIVIAN AMIS Relationships based on dishonesty, lies,
Secrets and cheats R not only predicted
to fail b...
LILY AMIS Man who TOY with Womans feelings and
emotions are heartless & faithless creatures.
B...
LILY AMIS Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
MARTIN AMIS You will be facing unexpected challenges and have new experiences, but that’s the beauty of life. ...
LILY AMIS When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
MARTIN AMIS Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated ...
MARTIN AMIS Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if sh...
MARTIN AMIS When you are imprisoned, you can’t enjoy the benefits of being alive. You can’t educate yourself...
LILY AMIS Sometimes the only reason why you
won't let go of someone making you
sad is because he w...
LILY AMIS My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my fi...
MARTIN AMIS There is always a solution to every problem! Fishy
LILY AMIS Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. Th...
MARTIN AMIS You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, the...
MARTIN AMIS The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
MARTIN AMIS In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class trai...
MARTIN AMIS This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against...
MARTIN AMIS She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go ab...
MARTIN AMIS The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, whe...
MARTIN AMIS When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.
VIVIAN AMIS My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
MARTIN AMIS It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve dra...
CHARLES KINGSLEY For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfu...
CHARLES KINGSLEY There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wo...
CHARLES KINGSLEY I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went ab...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, dil...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
CHARLES KINGSLEY One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears i...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
CHARLES KINGSLEY For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
CHARLES KINGSLEY We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to m...
CHARLES KINGSLEY And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understan...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry i...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
CHARLES KINGSLEY If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
BEN KINGSLEY I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That i...
BEN KINGSLEY I have never felt bereft of anything.
BEN KINGSLEY In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anym...
BEN KINGSLEY "O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
CHARLES KINGSLEY One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day...
BEN KINGSLEY Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with vio...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterl...
CHARLES KINGSLEY There is a great deal of human nature in man.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thoug...
CHARLES KINGSLEY When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad, CHARLES KINGSLEY We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected yo...
BEN KINGSLEY Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen, What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY If their (the Utility Department's) case is compelling enough to warrant a review, then they'll be a...
CHRIS KINGSLEY I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories ...
BEN KINGSLEY With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
BEN KINGSLEY There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in...
BEN KINGSLEY The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is f...
CHARLES KINGSLEY We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this wa...
BEN KINGSLEY I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and e...
BEN KINGSLEY All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tr...
BEN KINGSLEY Have thy tools ready, God will find thee work
CHARLES KINGSLEY More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY The only way to regenerate the world is to do the thing which lies nearest us, and not hunt after gr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is...
CHARLES KINGSLEY As long as we can dedicate the money to specific items like the roads or pavement management, I thin...
CHRIS KINGSLEY We almost always undervalue the significance of the Victory at the Cross.But as our understanding is...
KINGSLEY ONWUCHEKWA We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keep...
CHARLES KINGSLEY I have done three makeup tests and I'm very, very happy with them. I am completely unrecognizable.
BEN KINGSLEY The yellow stars I have worn on three coats in Europe prevented that from happening,
BEN KINGSLEY Do noble things, not dream them all day long
CHARLES KINGSLEY To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very g...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned ins...
CHARLES KINGSLEY There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is fre...
CHARLES KINGSLEY See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burs...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to ...
BEN KINGSLEY I once had a sweet little doll, dears, / The prettiest doll in the world.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
CHARLES KINGSLEY When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And...
CHARLES KINGSLEY For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
CHARLES KINGSLEY