Author of quotes: Kingsley AMIS

... The human imagination would be a much more pleasant gift of nature, if man himself could determine when to turn it on and when to turn off. It would be just as useful.

And I have a rule, if it happens with someone quarrel, then I must apologize. Almost always are my fault, and if not me, then what the hell is the difference? It would be better if someone apologizes, than nobody, huh?

... parents usually feel offended when someone else tries something to blame their child.

If you do not care, what to drink, it, unfortunately, does not mean that later you won't care what you drank.

People are violent... use every opportunity to show how tolerant they are.

The more interesting question, the obvious that to ask it is impossible.

How little people matter in the lives of others and how little they know about each other, even if meet every day.

To exercise power for many people is a pleasure.

A girl doesn't need to go too far to please the teacher. Enough a pleasant manner.

Composure in a dispute will always win the raging of the enemy.

The misfortunes of the near fascinating - from a safe distance.

But didn't he say that you should accustom yourself to do without sleeping pills?
- Yes, said. But he never told me how to train yourself to go without sleep.

Any change is good; to be in stillness, to increment to the place - always a bad thing.

Anyone who says that does not believe in progress, must at least briefly acquainted with the history of the middle ages. This will encourage him to have lifted his spirits just the same as the exams raises the morale of the students. The hydrogen bomb, the South African government, Chiang Kai-shek, even the Senator McCarthy - all this will seem a very cheap price to pay for what the middle ages were far behind.