Quotes
Quotes - Burgess
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - You've Had Your Time, 1990.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
Are you a bromide?
I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one!
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
