Discover the most iconic quotes from “A Clockwork Orange” with this curated collection of 50 memorable lines. Immerse yourself in the profound and thought-provoking words from this classic novel and film.
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 137-minute film based on Anthony Burgess’s novel of the same name. We listed best quotes from A Clockwork Orange movie
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A Clockwork Orange Quotes
1- ” Let’s get things nice & sparkling clear.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
2- “I’ve taught you much, my little droogies.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
3- “I was cured alright.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
4- “I’m singing in the rain. Just singing in the rain. What a glorious feelin’ I’m happy again.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
5- “Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
6- “I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. if I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
7- “What are we gonna do? Talk about me sex life?” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
8- “Eggiweggs!” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
9- “I was cured, all right.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
10- “There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
11- “[while torturing Frank & his wife; singing] I’m Singing in the Rain, just Singing in the Rain. What a glorious feeling, I’m happy again…” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
12- “There were some sophistos from the TV studio right around the corner. The devotchka was smiling away… jollying and vigoreeting. Then suddenly, my friends, the disc on the stereo faded out. And in the short lapse before the other one started, she came in with a burst of singing…”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
13- “Hey, dad… there’s a strange fella sitting in the sofa. Munchy-wunching lobschticks of toast.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
14- “Naughty, naughty, naughty!!!” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
15- “Welly welly well well.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
16- “Come and get one in the yarbles! If you have any yarbles that is!”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
17- “How art thou?! Thou bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil.-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
18- “No time for the ole in-out love, I’m here to read the meter.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
19- “No time for the old in-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
20- “It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem real when you viddy them on the screen.”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
21- “One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
22- ” Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
23- “And the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I’d like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
24- “It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
25- “As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside but thinking all the time, so now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog. But, suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends; for now it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with a stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do…”-Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
26- “As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
27- “Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn’t fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
28- “Evidence of the ol’ glassies! Nothing up our sleeves, no magic little Alex! A job for two who are now of job age! The police!” –Georgie, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
29- “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.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
30- “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.” –Tramp, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
31- “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.” –Minister, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
32- “Cut the shit, sonny.” –Cat Lady, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
33- “The end of the line, yes?” –C.I.D. Official, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
34- “Goodness comes from within. Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” Prison Chaplain, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
35- “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.” –Prison Chaplain, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
36- “He brutally murdered a woman, sir, in furtherance of theft. Fourteen years, sir!” –Chief Guard, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
37- “So I waited and, 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.” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
38- “Excuse me, Mrs. Can you please help? There’s been a terrible accident! My friend’s in the middle of the road bleeding to death! Can I please use your telephone for an ambulance?” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
39- “Well, like he says, it’s mostly odd things he does. Helping like… here and there as it might be.”-Mum, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
40- “Alex: Eggy wegs… I want to smash em
Alex: Eggy wegs… I want to smash em.
Alex: Eggy Wegs… I would like to smash ’em.” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
41- “Tramp: 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?” –Alex, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
42- “Psychiatrist: What do you want?
Alex : Uh, no time for the ol’ in-out, love. I’ve just come to read the meter!”-‘A Clockwork Orange’.
43- “Chief Guard: Are you now, or have you ever been a homosexual?
Alex: [smiling] No, sir.
Alex: No, sir.” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
44- “Chief Guard: 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: Then your toes belong on the OTHER side of it!” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
45- “Alex: Your wife sir? Is she away?
Mr. Frank Alexander: No. She’s dead.” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
46- “P.R. Deltoid: Do I make myself clear?
Minister of Interior: Do I make myself clear?
Alex: As an unwanted leg.
Alex: As clear as an unmuddied lake.” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
47- “ Minister: This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition.
Alex: Alex replies: Thank you very much for this chance, sir.
Constable: Minister replies: Let’s hope you make the most of it, my boy.” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
48- “Alex: The Korova Milkbar sold milk plus, milk plus vellocet or sythemesc or drencom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of old the ultra-violence.
Tramp: Go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don’t want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one. (to Alex)
Alex: Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
49- “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. Brodsky: Are you referring to the background score?” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
50- “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.” –‘A Clockwork Orange’.
