Frases de Kingsley Amis

Kingsley William Amis, CBE [1]​ fue un escritor, crítico literario y profesor británico. Escribió más de veinte novelas, tres recopilaciones de poesía, historias cortas, guiones para radio y televisión y libros de crítica social y literarias. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. abril 1922 – 22. octubre 1995   •   Otros nombres Kingslijs Emiss, کینقزلی آمیس, കിങ്‍സ്‍ലി അമിസ്, 킹즐리 에이미스
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Kingsley Amis: Frases en inglés

“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.”

Fuente: 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 libro 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 libro 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.
Fuente: 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 libro Take a Girl Like You

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

“More will mean worse.”

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