Brave New World

Book · 5 characters · 516 quotes · 1932

Quotes from Brave New World

M
"You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs"
Mustapha Mond
M
"The world's stable now. People are happy"
Mustapha Mond
L
"I don't know what I wanted to do. Something queer, something against the rules"
Lenina Crowne
M
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison"
Mustapha Mond Happiness
M
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude"
Mustapha Mond Freedom
J
"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else"
John the Savage
M
"You pay a high price for consistency"
Mustapha Mond Wisdom
J
"But I like the inconveniences"
John the Savage Freedom
M
"The secret's pretty good contraception and world stability"
Mustapha Mond Technology
J
"O brave new world, that has such people in't"
John the Savage Hope
J
"Brave New World"
John the Savage
M
"The more stitches, the less riches"
Mustapha Mond Work
J
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger"
John the Savage Courage
J
"I'm glad I'm not you"
John the Savage Freedom
M
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness"
Mustapha Mond Faith
M
"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"
Mustapha Mond Wisdom
M
"Happiness is a hard master"
Mustapha Mond Happiness
B
"You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf with the same enthusiasm."
Bernard Marx
J
"I want to know what it feels like to be unhappy."
John the Savage
M
"Ectogenesis leads to perfect social stability."
Mustapha Mond Science
J
"I don't understand anything anymore."
John the Savage
M
"The absence of strong feeling is the essence of stability."
Mustapha Mond Peace
M
"Wheels are always out of gear in a catastrophe."
Mustapha Mond History
L
"You're not being very polite."
Lenina Crowne
J
"I want to understand things, to know things."
John the Savage Education
B
"Why did you come to the Reservation?"
Bernard Marx
B
"The Savage is really astonishingly amusing sometimes."
Bernard Marx Humor
J
"I want to be free, not conditioned."
John the Savage Freedom
L
"Everybody's happy now."
Lenina Crowne Happiness
M
"You can't make tragedies without social instability."
Mustapha Mond Art