Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Martin Amis quotes, Martin Amis sayings, and Martin Amis proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.Martin Amis
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In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.Martin Amis
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Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.Martin Amis
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Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.Martin Amis
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They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.Martin Amis
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Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.Martin Amis
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettableMartin Amis
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.Martin Amis
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.Martin Amis
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.Martin Amis
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The trouble with life ... is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning; and the same ending.Martin Amis
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.Martin Amis
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It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.Martin Amis
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.Martin Amis
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Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalism. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.Martin Amis
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettableMartin Amis
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Style is not neutral. It gives moral directions. Martin Amis
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To be more interested in the writer than the writing is just eternal human vulgarity.Martin Amis