Kingsley Amis Quotes
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. Victor Gollancz, 1963.
Adams had argued in the first Senate for titles for the U. S. Executive Officers. Adams was portly. Izard’s joke stuck and the “title” follows Adams into his Presidency and throughout his career.
Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer, Zachary Leader, called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." He is the father of the novelist Martin Amis. In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
