Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. – Kingsley Amis
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. – Kingsley Amis
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I dont think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. – Tony Blair