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

I'll kiss you every hour... of everyday — B.C. Burgess

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help. — Gelett Burgess

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. — Anthony Burgess

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

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones ... you are invited! — Anthony Burgess

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. — Gelett Burgess

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. — Christopher Hitchens

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess

Plenty of directors can milk a scene; there aren't many who can resist the temptation. — Jackson Burgess

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Anthony Burgess

The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently. — Anthony Burgess

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

If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself. — Gloria Burgess

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. — Gelett Burgess

It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show. — Anthony Burgess

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it! — Gelett Burgess

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy. — Gelett Burgess

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. — Gelett Burgess

Dare to wear your soul on the outside! — Gloria Burgess

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them. — Melvin Burgess

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet. — Anthony Burgess

I didn't think; I experimented. — Anthony Burgess

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness. — Anthony Burgess

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. — Anthony Burgess

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. — Anthony Burgess

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it. — Anthony Burgess

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

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed, — Anthony Burgess

We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure. — Anthony Burgess

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. — Anthony Burgess

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion — Catrina Burgess

You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god — Anthony Burgess

Connection was the thing, whether through bed, bottle, grand inquisitorial session. — Anthony Burgess

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. — Anthony Burgess

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway. — Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead — Gelett Burgess

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs — Anthony Burgess

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. — Gelett Burgess

Roxy Music, Roxy Music Bengans, Stockholm Recommended by Kevin Rowland Royal — Tim Burgess

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. — Gelett Burgess

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. — Michael Burgess

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders. — Gelett Burgess

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. — Gelett Burgess

Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well. — Tamara Keith

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. — Anthony Burgess

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright. — Anthony Burgess

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

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. — Anthony Burgess

Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em! — Burgess Meredith

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? — Anthony Burgess

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess

Plum smiles, sighs, and shakes her head. 'No. You know, I thought Dan was a good guy. Maybe there are no good guys left. — Gemma Burgess

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. — Anthony Burgess

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. — Anthony Burgess

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius. — Gloria Burgess

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

But this one was a writer, not a reader. — Anthony Burgess

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. — Gelett Burgess

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once. — Melvin Burgess

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess

Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had. — Anthony Burgess

I've discovered the secret to successful singledom. I'm acting like a man. And it's working. — Gemma Burgess

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes. — Anthony Burgess

Civilised my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess

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

A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show. — Anthony Burgess

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language — Anthony Burgess

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. — Anthony Burgess

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it. — Clive James

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto. — Gelett Burgess

Humankind has endless potential, but shows an endless capacity to fall short of that promise. — Mark E. Burgess

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. — Mitchell Burgess

What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work. — Thornton W. Burgess

What's it going to be then, eh? — Anthony Burgess

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess

Passion is like an intoxicating drug but without the dangers and side effects. — Dave Burgess

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

And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since. — Tony Burgess

And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom. — Anthony Burgess

It's always easier to walk away. — Gemma Burgess

Love is a secret society, a community for two. — Melvin Burgess

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now. — Anthony Burgess

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter. — Gelett Burgess

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin. — Sonny Burgess

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. — Anthony Burgess

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness. — Anthony Burgess

Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors. — Anthony Burgess

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix. — Michael Burgess

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. — Gelett Burgess

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies. — Gelett Burgess