Literature Quotes by Anthony Burgess

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Anthony Burgess

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”

— Anthony Burgess

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

— Anthony Burgess

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Anthony Burgess

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

— Anthony Burgess

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

— Anthony Burgess

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

— Anthony Burgess

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I…

— Anthony Burgess

... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky…

— Anthony Burgess

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

— Anthony Burgess

“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like…

— Anthony Burgess

“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only…

— Anthony Burgess