Anthony Burgess Quotes

People always make war when they say they love peace.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

If he wants to fight, we can fight. I don't have any problem with him, but we can do it if he wants to.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so I'm waiting for the bullet in the head.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

If they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them.

Our ally has done us more harm than if it had been in open war with us.

Goddamn bitch set me up!

If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.

I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

Mitch McConnell, I'm going to light him up.