All Anthony Burgess Quotes
- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Alone
- Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the… Among
- It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Always Good
- Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Friday
- If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. Belief
- We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. All
- Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. Avoid
- Every dogma has its day. Day
- The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Becomes
- The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Afternoon
- Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Commerce
- 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 chain bookstore: 30,000.… Average
- A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Intellectual
- The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. Creator
- Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile… American
- I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. Conclude
- The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny… All
- All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. All
- This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a… Agitated
- For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth… Chosen