382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

Life is, of course, terrible.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.