Quotes by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...”

“Every change is a menace to stability.”

“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remin...”

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”

“One cant have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. Youre paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.”

“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that ma...”

“He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swa...”

“There was something called Christianity.”

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You cant consume much if you sit still and read books.”

“What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!”

“A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deli...”

“You pays your money and you takes your choice.”

“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”

“Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.”

“... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.”

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better ne...”

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

“Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was no...”