382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

The human liver, unless it is Graham Greene’s, can take so much and no more.

Never,′ I said. ‘One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.

What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.

Dreams go by opposites I was once told.

That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

The intellectuals have never been on the side of the workers. Sometimes they’ve let on to be, but only for purposes of betrayal.

Then there was another picture of some veck I thought I knew, and it was this Minister of the Inferior or Interior.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.