Quotes from Anthony Burgess

Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

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

Every dogma has its day.

The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.

Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou

odorous as a crateful of bad eggs with the miasma of original sin.

but,brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick... more badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies,and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self... But what I do I do because I like to do.

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen

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

Ama kötülüÄŸün sebebini bulmaya çal??arak t?rnaklar?n kemirmeleri kahkahadan k?r?lmama yol aç?yor kardeÅŸlerim. Ä°yiliÄŸin sebebini arad?klar? yok, öyleyse niye tersini merak ediyorlar ki? (syf. 35)

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

You're a romantic," said Crabbe. "You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull.

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.

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

Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.

Algunas veces no es grato ser bueno, pequeño 6655321. Ser bueno puede llega a ser algo horrible. Y te lo digo sabiendo que puede ser una afirmación muy contradictoria. ¿Qué quiere Dios, el bien o que uno elija el camino del bien? Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien.

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.

But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.

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

Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others.

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?