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Сэр Ки́нгсли Уи́льям Э́мис — английский прозаик, поэт и критик. Один из лидеров литературного направления 1950-x годов «рассерженные молодые люди». Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Апрель 1922 – 22. Октябрь 1995   •   Другие имена Kingslijs Emiss, کینقزلی آمیس, കിങ്‍സ്‍ലി അമിസ്, 킹즐리 에이미스
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“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”

Kingsley Amis книга Lucky Jim

Источник: Lucky Jim

“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”

Kingsley Amis книга Lucky Jim

Источник: Lucky Jim (1954)

“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”

Attributed in Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993) by Giles Gordon, and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 14

“We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.”

"Phoenix Too Frequent" Critique of D. H. Lawrence
What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions (1970)

“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”

Источник: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274

“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”

"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)

“There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)”

Kingsley Amis книга Stanley and the Women

Stanley and the Women (1984)

“You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'
She shook her head. […] 'What they do is their nature,' she said.”

Kingsley Amis книга Take a Girl Like You

Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)

“Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.”

The speaker is Patrick Standish, copyrighting his own witticism.
Источник: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 17, p. 248

“Should you revisit us
Stay a little longer
And get to know the place…
On local life we trust
The resident witness
Not the royal tourist.”

"New Approach Needed", about the Second Coming, (p. 27)
A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967 (1968)

“Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.”

Kingsley Amis книга Take a Girl Like You

Источник: Take a Girl Like You (1960), Ch. 17

“More will mean worse.”

Encounter magazine (July 1960) (referring to the proposed expansion of higher education)