Kingsley Amis Quotes

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours." Glory in Death

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I prefer love over sex.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Love dies only when growth stops.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

I love you present tense.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

It's strong, Ian. The way she feels about you is something else. She loves this world, but so much of the reason she couldn't leave was really you. She thinks of you as her anchor. You gave her a reason to finally stay in one place after a lifetime of wandering.

Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

Love is mistranslated into sex, because sex is not an expression of love. Sex is an expression of physical activity. It can be an expression of love between two people in love, but it's a carnal expression.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.