Anthony Burgess

I was cured all right.

— Anthony Burgess

“Then we slooshied.”

— Anthony Burgess

Life is, of course, terrible.

— Anthony Burgess

What's it going to be then, eh?

— Anthony Burgess

“...the whatness of Allbook.”

— Anthony Burgess

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

— Anthony Burgess

Every dogma has its day.

— Anthony Burgess

“Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.”

— Anthony Burgess

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

— Anthony Burgess

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

— Anthony Burgess

“Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.”

— Anthony Burgess

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

— Anthony Burgess

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

— Anthony Burgess

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

— Anthony Burgess

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

— Anthony Burgess

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

— Anthony Burgess

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

— Anthony Burgess

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

— Anthony Burgess

“Everything ends In Mexico Mexico, An excellent place to die. Come some day and try Mexico.”

— Anthony Burgess

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived…

— Anthony Burgess

“Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or…

— Anthony Burgess

As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and…

— Anthony Burgess

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary…

— Anthony Burgess

“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of…

— Anthony Burgess

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is…

— Anthony Burgess

“Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.'…

— Anthony Burgess

Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking…

— Anthony Burgess

This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to…

— Anthony Burgess

“But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a…

— Anthony Burgess

“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a…

— Anthony Burgess

“(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell…

— Anthony Burgess

“You could viddy it all right, all of it, very clear—tables, the stereo, the lights, the sharps and the malchicks—but it was…

— Anthony Burgess

“and you were sort of hypnotized by your boot or shoe or a finger-nail as it might be,and at the same time…

— Anthony Burgess

“That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere…

— Anthony Burgess

“I am instructed by the Home Secretary to read out the following. . . . It is a prayer devised by the…

— Anthony Burgess