Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

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

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.