382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

...but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure...

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

There is lots of scope for European banking deals.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.