382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip-music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.

A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist’s job to preach; it is his job to show.

I didn’t think; I experimented.

Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can’t pay.

What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there’s not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you’re living in a mad world.

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. That sort of thing could sap all the strength and the goodness out of a chelloveck.

Why are we fighting? We’re fighting because we’re soldiers. That’s simple enough, isn’t it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We’re fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense, the whole of the English-Speaking Union. From whom? No concern of ours. Where? Wherever we’re sent. Now, Foxe, I trust all this is perfectly clear.