382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

I am everyone’s friend,’ I said. ‘Except to my enemies.

Their hair belonged to some middle crinal zone between aseptic nord and latinindian jetwalled lousehouse.

That was everything. I’d done the lot now. And me still only fifteen.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence – the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.

Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining’s? Or from Jackson’s in Piccadilly?

Well, everything’s a lesson, isn’t it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

Choice,’ rumbled a rich deep goloss. I viddied it belonged to the prison charlie. ‘He has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

A flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.