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Quotes from Napoleon Symphony — Anthony Burgess

1917–1993 England

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'How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.'

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

'As for your circumcisions, the chief modin can arrange all. Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. Haram.'

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

'It was not seemly to raise your flags on the minarets.'

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

The Turks would do anything with a captured screaming infidel body - make it chew its own penis, thrust the testicles up the anus, saw the noseless earless head off with slow delicacy.

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

...like a ship, clean and trim on a dirty sea of pox and camel-dung.

Napoleon Symphony (1974)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Burgess (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.