When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don’t respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.
—Kingsley Amis
Topics: Wine
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.
—Kingsley Amis
Topics: Politics, Politicians
On hangovers: He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
—Kingsley Amis
Topics: Alcohol
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
—Kingsley Amis
Topics: Churches, Religion
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
—Kingsley Amis
Topics: Criticism
A German wine label is one of the things life’s too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation’s love of detail and organization.
—Kingsley Amis
Topics: Wine
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
—Kingsley Amis
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