Famous quotes containing the words anthony burgess, part, confessions, anthony and/or burgess:
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, but intellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.”
—W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)
“A frog he would a-wooing go,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
Whether his mother would let him or no.
With a rowley, powley, gammon and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. A frog he would a-wooing go (l. 1–5)
“The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)