382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

It is not the novelist’s job to preach; it is his duty to show.

But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.

Of course it was horrible,′ smiled Dr. Branom. ‘Violence is a very horrible thing. That’s what you’re learning now. Your body is learning it.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

History is a wheel. This sort of world can’t go on for ever either.

Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog?’ And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: ‘Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

I mean, there’s little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you’re going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.