Anthony Burgess World Quotations

As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

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

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

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

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.