Brave New World

"Knowing is a way of being."

"You can't even talk to each other about it without living a lie."

"I suppose I shall have to make do with mathematics."

"O Brave New World, O brave new world!"

"How wonderfully practical!"

"I'm sorry I've given you a distressing time."

"Satisfactory rhyming couplets, I'm afraid. Quite adequate doggerel."

"I'm not a World Controller. You are. You're not a World Controller."

"We sacrifice the freedom of individuals for the good of the whole."

"Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."

"An unorthodox quarter of an hour with someone of the other sex."

"The secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do."

"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger."

"Brave New World."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"The secret's out. I'm thinking of killing myself."

"You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs."

"I do so love decent clothes."

"Pneumatic bliss."

"I'm glad I'm not you. Though your pneumatic tubes are very nice."

"Stability. The primal and ultimate need."

"We have the World State now. And Ford's Ford has foreseen it."

"The world's stable now. People are happy."

"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."

"The primal and ultimate need of human beings is to feel that their existence is justified."

"Brave New World!"

"I am my mother."

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything."

"I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."

"The perfection of machinery has been reached. What's left? Only the perfection of the human being."