Top 100 Kingsley Quotes
#1. I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.
Raymond Chandler
#2. It was a bright, sunny morning in June when Bill first visited Jacob Kingsley. He flew in through the open window, buzzed about the room awhile, and then planted his six tiny legs along the wall opposite the bed.
Nate Gutman
#3. Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you - free. - Kingsley Amis
Christopher Hitchens
#4. I'm currently imagining a few creative ways of causing you extraordinary amounts of pain."
Kingsley raised his chin. Mere inches separated their faces.
"Stop flirting. You know we don't have time for that.
Tiffany Reisz
#5. Take some advice," Kingsley said, "and keep your eyes on me. If you stare at him too long, you might learn something about what it means to be a man of God.
Tiffany Reisz
#6. He's a bastard, that blond monster." "You know you love him." "Entirely against my will," Kingsley said, "and with all my heart.
Tiffany Reisz
#7. Her hotline rang.
"Mistress Nora's House of Ill Repute. How may I direct your cock?"
"You aren't cute," Kingsley said.
"I beg to differ. I'm fucking precious.
Tiffany Reisz
#8. I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.
Cate Blanchett
#9. Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
Melissa De La Cruz
#10. She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.
Kingsley ... I can't do this. I'm coming with you.
Melissa De La Cruz
#11. I need your help," Kingsley said. "You're fucking my wife, and you come to ask for a favor. I almost admire that.
Tiffany Reisz
#12. Ah, arguing with Ava Kingsley. Just like old times." Only back in college they'd argued in print - weekly.
Melissa Tagg
#13. French Vanilla," Kingsley said. "What's that?" "Vanilla with a strong libido and a taste for anal." "I can see that.
Tiffany Reisz
#14. The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
Lucy Punch
#15. It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)
Christopher Hitchens
#16. I hate you," Kingsley said.
"That hurts, King. That stings."
"Do you know what hurts? Having an erection and being two seconds from coming and your domme stops sucking you off."
"That is a very sad story. Tell me more."
"I've created a monster.
Tiffany Reisz
#17. Kingsley Lake, or "Silver Dollar Lake," is almost a perfect circle, spanning nearly two thousand acres with a surprising depth of ninety feet. The reason for the popular lake's unique shape and depth? It is one of Florida's many sinkholes.
Cary McNeal
#18. For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline broth, flecks of fried garlic, and a moist, steamed bird nesting on thick rice noodles and bean sprouts has stanched many a misery.
Michelle Huneven
#19. Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
Robert Winston
#20. Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'
Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
Kingsley Amis
#21. There is God, there is you and there is Kingsley. Those are my three nonnegotiables.
Tiffany Reisz
#22. Mon Dieu, the entire vanilla world has taken over my house. Fine. Both of you stay. Have tea. Turn everyone in my house boring.
-Kingsley
Tiffany Reisz
#23. He turned to Kingsley. "You and what army?"
"I don't need an army."
"What? Are you the French James Bond or something?"
"Of course not. James Bond is vanilla.
Tiffany Reisz
#24. Kingsley woke up that morning and decided to fuck the first girl who'd let him. Luckily there was a girl conveniently located in his bed. Who she was he didn't quite remember, but it didn't really matter.
Tiffany Reisz
#25. My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.
Josh Peck
#26. And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.
Melissa De La Cruz
#27. He felt that alcohol, cigarettes and the occasional cannabis joint was quite enough. There was no need to add caffeine to the list of health risks he put his body through."-Drake Kingsley's reason for not drinking tea or coffee, The Venetian Violinist.
Marcio Goncalves
#28. Pourquoi?" Kingsley demanded. "Why? You take her every way you can, every chance you have. Why her and not me?"
Soren hadn't replied, and for that Kingsley had been forever grateful. He knew the answer, but to hear it would have broken the one last unbroken part of his spirit.
Tiffany Reisz
#29. Kingsley kissed the top of Fionn's head. His heart clenched so tightly, his chest hurt. No wonder he'd sought after pain all his life. It felt just like love.
Tiffany Reisz
#30. I might suffocate you tonight with a pillow, Kingsley said
Tiffany Reisz
#31. Not that they were there to have fun - although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
Melissa De La Cruz
#32. The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
Beth Henley
#34. There's nothing you could do to me now that I wouldn't want. -Kingsley
Tiffany Reisz
#35. In a flash, they disappeared. The path, the gate, the demon, and the Silver Blood.
Kingsley was gone. Trapped in Hell for eternity.
Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest.
Melissa De La Cruz
#36. Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.
Melissa De La Cruz
#37. Kingsley turned his attention back to her.
"Why do you have your clothes on?"
"Was I supposed to take them off?"
"I've never heard a stupider question in my life.
Tiffany Reisz
#38. I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.
Jonathan Jackson
#39. Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.
Martin Amis
#40. Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
Martin Amis
#41. Under Kingsley Shacklebolt, Azkaban was purged of Dementors. While it remains in use as a prison, the guards are now Aurors, who are regularly rotated from the mainland. There has been no breakout since this new system was introduced.
J.K. Rowling
#42. I think his accent got me pregnant," Maxine said. "I think I passed out. I need mouth to mouth. Kingsley's mouth," Katie said. "I think I need a trip to Manhattan," Jessika said. "And birth control. Lots of birth control." "I think you all need to go jump in the pond," Nora said.
Tiffany Reisz
#43. I'm French," Kingsley said. "I'm asking about your religion." "That is my religion.
Tiffany Reisz
#44. Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving.
J.K. Rowling
#45. I did what I always do when I meet a beautiful woman," Kingsley said with a shrug. "I fucked her.
Tiffany Reisz
#46. You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?" "I told them," Nora said. "Age is only a number," Angie said. "So is sixty-nine," Maxine said.
Tiffany Reisz
#47. It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with ... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart
#48. Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley
Robert B. Parker
#49. I wanted this club for you," Kingsley confessed. "The truth is, I was building it for you. I wanted you to have somewhere safe you could go and be you. Because I love you,
Tiffany Reisz
#50. Celibacy." Kingsley pronounced the word like a curse. It was a curse. "I thought you were a sadist. When did you become a masochist?
Tiffany Reisz
#51. Yes, there was a nun in my bed," Nora said with a sigh.
"This is my favourite story already," Kingsley said. "Go on.
Tiffany Reisz
#52. One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that.
Chris Eigeman
#53. Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
It was a dream I had last week
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem
But I love the title.
Wendy Cope
#54. Tell me, have you ever had sex in the back of a Rolls Royce? -Kingsley
Tiffany Reisz
#55. Kingsley, before you say anything that could land you or me in jail, you should know you're on speaker phone with your fan club," Nora said. "Did you know you had a fan club?"
"Non," he said. "But I'm not surprised.
Tiffany Reisz
#56. When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.
Melissa De La Cruz
#57. Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables
Melissa De La Cruz
#58. A man in love with a woman in love with another man is the second most desperate creature on the earth."
"What's the first?"
"A man in love with a man in love with another woman."
Eleanor laughed. Kingsley didn't.
Tiffany Reisz
#59. It's a miracle, isn't it?" Kingsley said. "After all we put each other through that we're still together. All of us. A fucking miracle.
Tiffany Reisz
#60. You're a Catholic priest. Aren't you all drunks?"
"If I wasn't before, being back in your life might drive me to drink. Between you and Eleanor it's a miracle I'm even lucid."
Kingsley pointed at him. "I take that as a compliment."
"You would.
Tiffany Reisz
#61. It was twelve years ago. Can you give me one good reason why we should dredge all of that up tonight?"
"I can," Kingsley said. "Because you fucked a nun.
Tiffany Reisz
#62. Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
Russell Baker
#64. I love the Kerastase Hair Oils and the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. They're great for making my hair really soft, but to be honest, any cheap conditioner works. Just leave it on and let it soak in, and it really helps, whatever you use.
Abbey Clancy
#65. That is Kingsley Edge. And he is the opposite of boring. And if you three have any sense you'll stay away from him."
"What sense I had just took her panties off and laid down in front of him,
Tiffany Reisz
#66. The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".
Aaron Stanford
#67. Tell me, are you still hung up on that boy?' 'Excuse me?' Schuyler asked, holding a test tube. 'Nothing.' Kingsley shrugged innocently. 'If that's how you like to play it.
Melissa De La Cruz
#68. Good," Kingsley said. "Now let's build a kingdom.
Tiffany Reisz
#69. Kingsley looked magnificent, like a Regencyera fever dream. If Jane Austen had set eyes on Kingsley, she would never have written her genteel comedies of manner.
She would have written porn.
Tiffany Reisz
#70. God, you're arrogant," Charlotte growled as Kingsley slapped cold metal handcuffs on to each of her wrists.
"I'm not arrogant. I'm French.
Tiffany Reisz
#71. Harry slipped down a few stairs in shock. It was packed, far more crowded than when he had last been in there. Kingsley and Lupin were looking up at him, as were Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet, Bill and Fleur, and Mr and Mrs Weasley.
J.K. Rowling
#72. It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
Navi Rawat
#73. There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.
Ben Kingsley
#74. Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
Charles Kingsley
#75. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Charles Kingsley
#76. I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
Kingsley Amis
#78. Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
Charles Kingsley
#79. Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.
Charles Kingsley
#80. I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
Ben Kingsley
#81. They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
Ben Kingsley
#82. I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.
Kingsley Martin
#83. There a dozen ways to skin a cat. All of them are illegal.
Ness Kingsley
#84. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON
Kingsley Amis
#85. The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
Charles Kingsley
#86. I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
Kingsley Amis
#87. It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
Kingsley Amis
#88. Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
Charles Kingsley
#90. The manufacturing of consent*2 is now endemic to modern technological societies.
Kingsley L. Dennis
#91. Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.
Charles Kingsley
#92. The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.
Kingsley Amis
#93. Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis
#94. When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
Kingsley Amis
#95. I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.
Ben Kingsley
#97. I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.
Ben Kingsley
#98. Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
Charles Kingsley
#99. How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
Charles Kingsley
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