Anthony Burgess Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Anthony Burgess quotes: Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football Anthony Burgess quotes: Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-376796.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. Anthony Burgess quotes: It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-644157.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. Anthony Burgess quotes: And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1151067.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti. Anthony Burgess quotes: I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-965989.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although ... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess quotes: A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although ... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1901708.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. Anthony Burgess quotes: In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-259888.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever. Anthony Burgess quotes: And so I hunger for something that is permanent, something that will last forever. Truth, I am told, is a thing that will last forever.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-2152623.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. Anthony Burgess quotes: I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-482566.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed, Anthony Burgess quotes: The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-115116.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure. Anthony Burgess quotes: We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-287308.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. Anthony Burgess quotes: As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-153032.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. Anthony Burgess quotes: With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-2148874.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Anthony Burgess quotes: Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-2080059.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive. Anthony Burgess quotes: A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1294511.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side. Anthony Burgess quotes: I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1303660.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: 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. Anthony Burgess quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-2185312.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen Anthony Burgess quotes: It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-2130075.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. Anthony Burgess quotes: Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1479780.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. Anthony Burgess quotes: Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1707738.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess quotes: It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1570939.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes. Anthony Burgess quotes: But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1832478.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. Anthony Burgess quotes: The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1819015.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. Anthony Burgess quotes: Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1808266.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? Anthony Burgess quotes: Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-627653.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. Anthony Burgess quotes: There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-618665.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had. Anthony Burgess quotes: Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-272191.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed. Anthony Burgess quotes: What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-99598.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck. Anthony Burgess quotes: Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-37496.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. Anthony Burgess quotes: As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1072667.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. Anthony Burgess quotes: What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1217742.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. Anthony Burgess quotes: The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1096185.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care. Anthony Burgess quotes: You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1081844.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop. Anthony Burgess quotes: Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1280557.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: 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. Anthony Burgess quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-1044657.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? Anthony Burgess quotes: Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-945323.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end. Anthony Burgess quotes: Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-901164.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. Anthony Burgess quotes: It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-879523.jpg)
![Anthony Burgess quotes: I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner. Anthony Burgess quotes: I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anthony-burgess-quotes-814878.jpg)
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anthony Burgess
Discover top inspirational quotes from Anthony Burgess on Wise Famous Quotes.