Creative Quotations from . . .
Kingsley Amis
(1922-1995) born on
Apr 16
English "novelist, poet, critic, teacher". "He created in "Lucky Jim," 1954 a comic figure who who became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s."
 
   
F
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

R
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.
A
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
N
"I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root."
K
"Death has got something to be said for it:
There's no need to get out of bed for it;
Wherever you may be,
They bring it to you, free."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "One Fat Englishman," Ch. 14"
R: "On recovering from a hangover, "Lucky Jim," 1958."
A: "On the pâté at London's Simpson's-on-the-Strand restaurant, in "London Illustrated News," May 1986."
N: "In "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations," by James B. Simpson, 1988."
K: ""Delivery Guaranteed.""
   



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