“Well well well. What makes, bratty. What gives, this fine bright middle of the nochy?" He said: "I'll give you just ten… — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
“Well, then she had to be tolchoked proper with one of the weights for the scales, and then a fair tap with… — Anthony Burgess Friendship Copy Share Image
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 Afternoon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Yes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might… — Anthony Burgess End of the world Copy Share Image
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 Capacity Copy Share Image
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess Bird Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess Be good Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop… — Anthony Burgess Birthday Copy Share Image
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised… — Anthony Burgess Civilized Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name – A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – and I said: ‘That’s a… — Anthony Burgess Clockwork Orange Copy Share Image
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.” — Anthony Burgess Life Copy Share Image
“You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god” — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
“but,brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick...… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily… — Anthony Burgess Car Copy Share Image
“Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.” — Anthony Burgess Education Copy Share Image
“Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.” — Anthony Burgess Energy Copy Share Image
“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” — Anthony Burgess Death Copy Share Image
“There she was, welcoming him in, farting prrrrrrp like ten thousand earthquakes, belching arrrp and og like a million volcanoes, while the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Book Copy Share Image
