Bernard Marx

"I'm interested in truth, I like science."

"But I don't want to be conditioned."

"I suppose Lenina's right. I am rather odd."

"I'm glad I'm not you."

"Who's playing?"

"And that, he reflected, was the final and supreme indignity."

"He's more of a social embryo."

"I don't like the idea of conditioning people in ways that make them, in the conventional sense, unfit."

"Happiness is a hard master"

"Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness"

"I'm glad I'm not you."

"The future, so I'm told, is ours."

"Silence is golden when you cannot speak sense."

"I do love having pneumatic women."

"Pneumatic excellence."

"I suppose Lenina's right. She usually is."

"I like the Reservation. There's something rather marvellous about the whole thing."

"I could make so many people happy."

"There is always some something immensely more interesting to do than whatever thing one actually is doing."

"The beauty of this world is how nobody questions anything."

"I feel I ought to do something about it. But I don't feel like doing it."

"What you need is something with tears for a change."

"I am my mother. My mother is me."

"I am my own master and my own slave."

"I should like to take him to Eton."

"Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness."

"The Savage reservation"

"Only a flesh wound"

"I am afraid of boredom, and of being bored."

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."