Author: Anthony Burgess

Cites

• Francis Xavier Enderby (1)
  • IN: Byrne (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Prudence, prudence,' the pigeons call, / 'Scorpions lurk in the gilded meadow, / An eye is embossed on the island wall. / The running tap casts a static shadow.' // 'Caution, caution,' the rooks proclaim, / ;The dear departed, the weeping widow, / Will meet in you in the core of flame. / The running tap casts a static shadow. // 'Act, act!' the ducks give voice. / 'Enjoy the widow in the meadow. / Drain the sacrement of choice. / The running tap casts a static shadow.'
    FROM: NULL, (1995), Fictional, NULL
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Nothing Like the Sun (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, / Coral is far more red than her lips' red, / If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, / If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...
    FROM: Sonnet 130, (1609), Poem, UK
  • IN: M/F (1971) Fiction, Humorous Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Enter Prine, Leonato, Claudio, and Jacke Wilson
    FROM: Much Ado About Nothing (First Folio), (1600), Play, UK
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: You've had your time: the second part of the confessions (1990) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...as I waited I thought that there's nothing like a confession to make one look mad; and that of all confessions a written one is the most detrimental all round. Never confess! Never, never!
    FROM: Chance, (1913), Novel, Ukraine/ England
• NULL (4)
  • IN: The Malayan Trilogy (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Malay state of Lanchap and its towns and inhabitants do not really exist.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Shakespeare (1970) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... Omeraviglioso mondo nuovo Che hai di questa gente
    FROM: La Tempesta, (None), NULL, Italy
  • IN: 1985 (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 2+2=5; a notice put up in Moscow...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
  • IN: A Vision of Battlements (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...Warning of an attack may be given by tingling sensations in the limbs, impairment of vision, flashing lights, a vision of battlements, noises in the ears, mental depression or other phenomena.
    FROM: The Illustrated Family Doctor, (2005), Film, Australia
• Simeon Potter (1)
  • IN: M/F (1971) Fiction, Humorous Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In his Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada Hans Kurath recognizes no isogloss coincident with the political border along Latitude 49 degree North.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Book, UK
• Charles Péguy (1)
  • IN: M/F (1971) Fiction, Humorous Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: C'est embêtant, dit Dieu. Quand il n'y aura plus ces Français, Il y a des choses que je fais, il n'y a aura plus personne pour les comprende.
    FROM: Le Mystère des saints Innocents, (1912), Book, France
• Osip Mandelstam (1)
  • IN: Honey for the Bears (1963) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We shall meet again in Petersburg, as though we had buried the sun.
    FROM: We shall meet again, in Petersburg, (1922), Poem, Russia
• Tiberianus or Publius Annius Florus (1)
  • IN: The Eve of Saint Venus (1964) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet
    FROM: Perviglium Veneris, (350), Poem, Italy
• Jules Laforgue (2)
  • IN: The Complete Enderby (None) Fiction, Collection, British
    EPIGRAPH: -- Allons, dernier de poètes, / Toujours enfermé tu te rendras malade! / Vois, il fait beau temps, tout le monde est dehors, / Va done acheter deux sous d'ellébore, / ça te fera une petite promenade.
    FROM: Dimaches, (1894), Poem, France/ Uruguay
  • IN: Inside Mr Enderby (1963) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: - Allons, dernier des poetes, / Toujours enferme tu te rendra malade!
    FROM: Dimanches, (1894), Poem, France
• Robert Burton (2)
  • IN: The Enemy in the Blanket (1958) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Their coming and going is sure in the night: in the plains of Asia (saith he), the storks meet on such a set day, he that comes last is torn to pieces, and so they get them gone
    FROM: A Digression on the Air, (1651), Book, UK
  • IN: The Long Day Wanes (1964) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Their coming and going is sure in the night: in the plains of Asia (saith he), the storks meet on such a set day, he that comes last is torn to pieces, and so they get them gone.
    FROM: A Digression on the Air, (1621), NULL, UK
• Artthur Hugh-Clough (2)
  • IN: Beds in the East (1959) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Good, too, Logic, of course; in itself, but not in fine weather
    FROM: The Bothie of Tober-na- Vuolich, (1848), Poem, UK
• Rubén Darío (1)
  • IN: Enderby Outside (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Esperad todavia. / El bestial elemento se solaza
    FROM: Torres de Dios! Poetas! (Poets! Towers of God!), (1916), Poem, Nicaragua
• Constant Lambert (1)
  • IN: Little Wilson and Big God (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Time, in fact, is rather vulgarly dramatic; it is the sentimentalist of the dimensions.
    FROM: Music Ho!, (1941), Book, UK
• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: A Vision of Battlements (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: --What year would that be about? Mr Bloom interpolated. Can you recall the boats? Our soi-disant sailor munched heavily awihle, hungrily, before answering. --I'm tired of all them rocks in the sea, he said, and boats and ships. Salt junk all the time. Tired, seemingly, he ceased.
    FROM: Ulysses, (1922), Novel, Ireland
• Giuseppe Guisti (1)
  • IN: Devil of a State (1961) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... Quei preti han presagito che il paese passo passo sarà presto invicilito; rimmarà come un babbeo l'Europeo.
    FROM: La guigliottina a vapore, (1833), Poem, Italy
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Devil of a State (1961) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is better to marry than to burn.
    FROM: The Bible, I Corinthians vi. 19, (100), Bible, NULL
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: Tremor of Intent (1966) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But between the day and night The choice is free to all, and light Falls equally on black and white.
    FROM: The Ascent of F6, (1936), Play, US/England
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Tremor of Intent (1966) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The worst that can be said of most of our malefactors, from statesmen to thieves, is that they are not men enough to be damned.
    FROM: Baudelaire, (1930), Essay, US
• Arthur Hugh Clough (2)
  • IN: The Long Day Wanes (1964) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Good, too, Logic, of course; in itself, but not in fine weather
    FROM: (The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich), (1848), Poem, UK