“I suppose one oughtnt to marry anybody, unless ones prepared to make him a full-time job.Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who dont look on themselves as jobs but as fell...”

“If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.”

“The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statement...”

“It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentis...”

“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour...”

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great father...”

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“We think that boxes take everything thats bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.”

“One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret Ill die with should I never use it.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft ...”

“Come on, its an American tradition. Apple soup? Moms homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'Its apple pie and Moms homemade chicken soup. But you didnt do badly, for...”

“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men or about women is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tel...”