208 quotes
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
Point Counter Point (1928)
Chastity — the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.
Antic Hay (1923)
"Bed," as the Italian proverb succinctly puts it, "is the poor man's opera."
Heaven and Hell (1954)
A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.
Grey Eminence (1940)
Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment.
Point Counter Point (1928)
Shearwater sighed profoundly, like a whale in the night.
Antic Hay (1923)
The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
“I am interested in everything,” interrupted Gumbril Junior.
“Which comes to the same thing,” said his father parenthetically, “as being interested in nothing.”
Antic Hay (1923)
A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Point Counter Point (1928)
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
Crome Yellow (1921)
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Jesting Pilate (1926)