382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

Regional dialects have to become national tongues before they can attain lasting glory. As with America, as with Australia. Scottish is different because Scotland considers itself to be a nation. Its language deserves a chapter to itself.

What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

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.

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

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.