Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

Quotes

• I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

• Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

• Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

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

• When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

• If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.