Logo
Quote by Anthony Burgess
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. - Anthony Bu

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

Other quotes by Anthony Burgess

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Language
Author
Anthony Burgess
Read Quote

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

Category:
Men
Author
Anthony Burgess
Read Quote

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Delinquency
Author
Anthony Burgess
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Language
category

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. – Bern Williams

Category:
Language

To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

Category:
Language

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books

Category:
Language

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. – Wendell L. Willkie

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable. – Jim Goad

Category:
diet

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. – Spiro T. Agnew

Category:
America

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. – Christopher Dawson

Category:
Men

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. – Hunter S. Thompson

Category:
Art