Quotes by Burgess, Anthony

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an >>

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlema >>

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, >>

Quotations about Marriage

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to >>

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. >>

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him. >>

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.

Burgess, Anthony