Anthony Burgess citáty

„Smej sa a svet sa bude s tebou smiať. Chráp a budeš sám spať.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Nikdy som nemal peniaze, preto nemám žiadne sympatie pre kapitalistov.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Život je mizerná, sivá sobota; ale musí sa prežiť.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Smrť prichádza ako účet za plyn, ktorý nemôžete zaplatiť.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Všetci muži snívajú o tlstých ženách, nikdy nie o chudých ženách.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Cesnak je najkrajšia vôňa na svete -veľmi, veľmi erotická u ženy.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Vlastníctvo knihy sa stáva náhradkou za jej prečítanie.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Viem, čo je láska. Láska je muž a žena v posteli.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Každé zrnko skúsenosti je potravou pre chamtivú rastúcu dušu umelca.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„Vidím, čo je správne a schvaľujem to, ale stále robím to, čo je zlé.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.“

—  Anthony Burgess

Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)

„I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.“

—  Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange

Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?“

—  Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange

Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.“

—  Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange

Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.“

—  Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange

Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.“

—  Anthony Burgess

„What I do I do because I like to do.“

—  Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange

Varianta: But what I do I do because I like to do.
Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?“

—  Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange

Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.“

—  Anthony Burgess

Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Varianta: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.