A Clockwork Orange Quotes
A Clockwork Orange (1962) is a novel by Anthony Burgess.
Notable Passages
“"What's it going to be then, eh?"”
“"Initiative comes to them as wait."”
“"Don't you laugh, damn you, don't you laugh!"”
“"Have you some new torture for me, you bratchny?"”
“"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."”
“Naughty, Naughty, Naughty you filthy ol' soomka!”
“"There was a man. . .a writer of subversive literature."”
“"I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?'"”
“"It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."”
“"Come with uncle," I said, "and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited."”
“Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?”
“Let's get things nice and sparkling clear. This sarcasm - if I may call it such, is very unbecoming of you oh my brothers”
“"What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence."”
““The common people will let it go. Oh yes, they’ll sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be led, sir, driven, pushed!””
“[To Alex as a Police Officer] Long time is right, I don't remember them days too horrorshow. Don't call me Dim no more either, Officer call me.”
“"Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
“"But I'm warning you, little Alex, being a good friend to you as always, the one man in this sore and sick community who wants to save you from yourself."”
“"Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name -A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?'”
“[About Alex] What natural right does he have to think he can give the orders and tolchock me whenever he likes? Yarbles is what I say to him, and I'd chain his glazzies out soon as look.”
“"The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence."”