“I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that… — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as… — Anthony Burgess Political Copy Share Image
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess Behinds Copy Share Image
“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise… — Anthony Burgess Gold and silver Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you a thing that will shock you. It will certainly shock the readers of Writer’s Digest. What I often do… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“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 Whole world Copy Share Image
“Their hair belonged to some middle crinal zone between aseptic nord and latinindian jetwalled lousehouse.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. — Anthony Burgess Bits Copy Share Image
“And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm… — Anthony Burgess Good vs evil Copy Share Image
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess Business Copy Share Image
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Freudian Copy Share Image
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Balance Copy Share Image
“Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith… — Anthony Burgess Faith Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Dangerous Copy Share Image
“I am instructed by the Home Secretary to read out the following. . . . It is a prayer devised by the… — Anthony Burgess Prayer Copy Share Image
“I said, smiling very wide and droogie: ‘Well, if it isn’t fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited… — Anthony Burgess Condiments Copy Share Image
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly… — Anthony Burgess Alright Copy Share Image
“And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.” — Anthony Burgess Anthony-burgess Copy Share Image
“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.” — Anthony Burgess Language Copy Share Image
“It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there’s no law nor… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. — Anthony Burgess Evil Copy Share Image
