A Clockwork Orange Quotes

[ about his wife ]
Frank Alexander : She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a flu epidemic! The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A VICTIM OF THE MODERN AGE! Poor, poor girl!

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Alex : The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. And soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark.

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P.R. Deltoid : I've just come from the hospital; your victim has died.
Alex : You try to frighten me. Admit so, sir. This is some new form of torture. Say it, Brother Sir.
P.R. Deltoid : It'll be your own torture. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

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Alex : No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.

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Female Psychaitrist : I'm going to show you a picture, and you tell me what that person might say.
Alex : Oh
Female Psychaitrist : Let's Begin [ Changes to a slide with two people looking at a peacock ]
Female Psychaitrist : "Isn't the plumage beautiful?"
Alex : I'm supposed to say what the other person would say?
Female Psychaitrist : Yes, just tell me the first thing that comes to your mind.
Alex : Cabbages, knickers, It hasn't got A BEAK!
Female Psychaitrist : Good. [ Changes slides to a man climbing into a naked woman's bedroom ]
Female Psychaitrist : "What do you want?"
Alex : No time for the ol' in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter!
Female Psychaitrist : Alright.
Alex : [ laughs ]
Female Psychaitrist : [ Changes slide to woman handing bird eggs to a man ] "You can do whatever you like with these.
Alex : Eggiweggs. I would like... to smash them. And pick them up, and THROW- [ moves injured arm ]
Alex : OW! Fucking hell! So did I pass?

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Psychiatrist : [ showing Alex the first slide ] Isn't the plummage beautiful?
Alex : I just have to say what the other person would say?
Psychiatrist : Yes.
Alex : [ repeating the question ] Isn't the plummage beautiful?
Psychiatrist : Yes, well don't think about it too long. Just say the first thing that pops into your mind.

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Alex : Eggiwegs! I would like... to smash them!

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Alex : You know what you can do with that watch? Stick it up your arse!

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[ last lines ]
Alex : I was cured, all right!

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Prison Chaplain : Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

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Alex : It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

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[ Alex has the tramp pinned down ]
Tramp : Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!
Alex : Oh? And what's so stinking about it?
Tramp : It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more. [ He starts singing another song, and Alex and his droogs proceed to beat him ]

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Alex : I've suffered the tortures of the damned, sir [ with innocent reinforcement ]
Alex : - tortures of the damned.

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Chief Guard Barnes : Are you able to see the white line painted on the floor directly behind you, Six-Double-Five-Three-Two-One?
Alex : Yes, sir.
Chief Guard Barnes : Then your toes belong on the *other* side of it!

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[ Alex chats up two girls sucking penis-shaped lollies ]
Alex : Enjoying that are you my darlin'? Bit cold and pointless isn't it my lovely? What's happened to yours my little sister?

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[ Staring at Alex's penis ]
Chief Guard Barnes : Are you now, or have you ever been a homosexual?

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Prison Chaplain : What's it going to be, eh? Is it going to be in and out of institutions like this? Well, more in and out for most of ya! Or are you going to attend to the Divine Word and realise the punishments that await unrepentant sinners in the next world as well as this? A lot of idiots you are, selling your own birthright for a saucer of cold porridge! The thrill of theft! Of violence! The urge to live easy! Well, I ask you what is it worth when we have undeniable truth - yes! Incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists! I know! I know my friends! I have been informed in visions that there is a place darker than any prison, hotter than any flame of human fire, where souls of unrepentant criminal sinners like yourselves...! [ an inmate belches, prompting the rest to laugh ]
Prison Chaplain : Don't you laugh, damn you! Don't you laugh! I say like yourselves scream in endless and unendurable agony! Their skin rotting and peeling! A fireball spinning in their screaming guts! I know! Oh yes, I know! [ Another inmate makes a raspberry noise, prompting them to laugh again ]

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Chief Guard Barnes : Pick that up and put it down properly!

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Prison Chaplain : Choice! The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. The insincerity was clear to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
Minister : Padre, there are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime and with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian, ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the heart at the thought of killing a fly. Reclamation! Joy before the angels of God! The point is that it works.

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Minister : What crime did you commit?
Alex : The accidental killing of a person, sir.
Chief Guard Barnes : He brutally murdered a woman, sir, in furtherance of theft. Fourteen years, sir!
Minister : Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He'll do.
Governor : Well, fine, we could still look at C-block...
Minister : No, no, no. That's enough. He's perfect. I want his records sent to me. This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition.
Alex : Thank you very much for this chance, sir.
Minister : Let's hope you make the most of it, my boy.

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Alex : No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky : Sin? What's all this about sin?
Alex : That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom : Are you referring to the background score?
Alex : Yes.
Dr. Branom : You've heard Beethoven before?
Alex : Yes!
Dr. Brodsky : So, you're keen on music?
Alex : YES!
Dr. Brodsky : Can't be helped. Here's the punishment element perhaps.

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Alex : You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise god!
Dr. Brodsky : You're not cured yet, boy.

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Minister : Oh, yes. I understand you're fond of music. I have arranged a little surprise for you.
Alex : Surprise?
Minister : One that I hope that you will like. As a um... how shall we put it? As a symbol of our new understanding. An understanding between two friends.

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Alex : So I waited and, O my brothers, I got a lot better munching away at eggiwegs, and lomticks of toast and lovely steakiwegs and then, one day, they said I was going to have a very special visitor. [ the Minister enters ]
Minister : Good evening, my boy.

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Minister : You seem to have a whole ward to yourself, my boy.
Alex : Yes, sir, and a very lonely place it is too, sir, when I wake up in the middle of the night with my pain.
Minister : Yes... well, good to see you on the mend!

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Minister : Public opinion has a way of changing.

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Minister : Punishment means nothing to them, you can see that. They enjoy their so-called punishment.
Alex : You're absolutely right, sir.
Chief Guard Barnes : Shut your bleeding hole!

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Tramp : In Dublin's fair city / Where the girls are so pretty, / I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone. / As she wheel'd her wheel barrow, / Thro' streets broad and narrow, / Crying "cockles and mussels alive alive O!" / "alive, alive O! Alive, alive O! / Crying Cockles and Mussels alive, alive O!" / As everybody's knowing, You've got a decent tongue, / Whene'er it's set agoing.

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Psychiatrist : [ reading off the slide ] The boy you always quarreled with is seriously ill...
Alex : Um... My mind is a blank... and... uhh... and I'll smash your face!

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Alex : I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.

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