"The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Religious Quotes #Fun Quotes #Loss Quotes

“It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.”
“The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.”
“We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.”
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...”
“Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.”
“If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.”
“My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.”
“It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2011). “The King's English”, p.209, Penguin UK

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