Anthony Burgess

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

— Anthony Burgess

“...the whatness of Allbook.”

— Anthony Burgess

What's it going to be then, eh?

— Anthony Burgess

Life is, of course, terrible.

— Anthony Burgess

I was cured all right.

— Anthony Burgess

“Then we slooshied.”

— Anthony Burgess

Every dogma has its day.

— Anthony Burgess

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

— Anthony Burgess

I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.

— Anthony Burgess

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

— Anthony Burgess

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

— Anthony Burgess

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

— Anthony Burgess

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

— Anthony Burgess

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

— Anthony Burgess

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

— Anthony Burgess

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

— Anthony Burgess

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

— Anthony Burgess

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

— Anthony Burgess

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

“Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith…

— Anthony Burgess

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”

— Anthony Burgess

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where…

— Anthony Burgess

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

— Anthony Burgess

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

— Anthony Burgess

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a…

— Anthony Burgess

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which…

— Anthony Burgess

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real…

— Anthony Burgess

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a…

— Anthony Burgess

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova…

— Anthony Burgess

“Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense…

— Anthony Burgess

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,…

— Anthony Burgess

And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy…

— Anthony Burgess

“My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred…

— Anthony Burgess

“Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a…

— Anthony Burgess

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your…

— Anthony Burgess

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an…

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Anthony Burgess

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that…

— Anthony Burgess

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it…

— Anthony Burgess

“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad…

— Anthony Burgess