How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now. — Anthony Burgess Brother Copy Share Image
“You must take your chance boy. The choice has been all yours.” — Anthony Burgess Chance Copy Share Image
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. — Anthony Burgess Handicap Copy Share Image
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” — Anthony Burgess Choose Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess America Copy Share Image
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. — Anthony Burgess Destroy Copy Share Image
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess Constructive Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Beauty Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Age Copy Share Image
For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a… — Anthony Burgess Chosen Copy Share Image
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,… — Anthony Burgess Acceptable Copy Share Image
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. — Anthony Burgess Believe Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on… — Anthony Burgess Atheism Copy Share Image
You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. — Anthony Burgess Contraceptives 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 Gang Copy Share Image
Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real… — Anthony Burgess Animal Copy Share Image
Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which… — Anthony Burgess Doe Copy Share Image
“Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense… — Anthony Burgess Destruction 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
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Age Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Books 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… — Anthony Burgess Badness Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
“The entrant mooed like a calf but in insolence looked about him. Hew saw Kit. Kit saw him. Nay, it was more… — Anthony Burgess Consecration 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
“And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had… — Anthony Burgess Better world 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
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because… — Anthony Burgess Badness 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 Computers Copy Share Image
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. — Anthony Burgess Human nature Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess Afternoon Copy Share Image
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Imagination Copy Share Image
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
