To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess Left alone Copy Share Image
I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner. — Anthony Burgess England 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
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Allegory Copy Share Image
“But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a… — Anthony Burgess Thou art Copy Share Image
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so… — Anthony Burgess Aspect 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
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard.… — Anthony Burgess Cain Copy Share Image
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on… — Anthony Burgess Carving Copy Share Image
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.” — Anthony Burgess Freedom of choice Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Fiction Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Abiding Copy Share Image
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Cabbage Copy Share Image
“You could viddy it all right, all of it, very clear—tables, the stereo, the lights, the sharps and the malchicks—but it was… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Imagination Copy Share Image
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess Essentials Copy Share Image
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the… — Anthony Burgess Evening Copy Share Image
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If… — Anthony Burgess Collectives Copy Share Image
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. — Anthony Burgess Critics Copy Share Image
“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was… — Anthony Burgess Time Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Culture Copy Share Image
