Famous Anthony Burgess Quotes

  • I was always on my oddy knocky. – Anthony Burgess

    I was always on my oddy knocky.– Anthony Burgess

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

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

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

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

  • 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

    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

  • 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

    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

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

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

  • …I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless… – Anthony Burgess

    …I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless…– Anthony Burgess

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

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

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

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

  • We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. – Anthony Burgess

    We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.– Anthony Burgess