A Mouthful of Air Quotes

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”
― Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English

“We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English

“If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English