Kingsley Amis... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.
About This Quote
This quote shows how Julius Caesar made the faces of all the statues he made the same expression. He thought that everyone needed to express their emotions in the same way he did. Even his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face was made to look like it was frowning. But, instead of having any emotions, this statue shows how he has no real feelings at all.
Source: Lucky Jim
Some Similar Quotes
- I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
- Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.
- A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement
- I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
- V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
More Quotes By Kingsley Amis
- Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law...
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'" Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
- 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.
- If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
- Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.