Frases de Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis foi um ficcionista, poeta e cronista literário britânico.

Revelou-se como um dos grandes prosadores ingleses que surgiram depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial, no grupo chamado Angry Young Men . Em 1954 lançou seu primeiro romance - e primeiro grande sucesso -, Lucky Jin, que lhe trouxe fama e algum dinheiro. No início se denominava centro-esquerdista, mas depois de romances como Take a girl like you e The anti-death league - pelo qual recebeu seu Booker Prize e seu Grau de Cavaleiro em 1990 - foi criticado por ter "passado para a direita", quando, por exemplo, apoiou a presença dos norte-americanos no Vietnã e atacou o Conselho das Artes, ele também foi considerado um dos 50 maiores escritores britânicos desde 1945. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Abril 1922 – 22. Outubro 1995   •   Outros nomes Kingslijs Emiss, کینقزلی آمیس, കിങ്‍സ്‍ലി അമിസ്, 킹즐리 에이미스
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Kingsley Amis frases e citações

Kingsley Amis: Frases em inglês

“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.”

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro 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.
Fonte: 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 livro Take a Girl Like You

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

“More will mean worse.”

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