Quotes About Aldous

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

Encendió un cigarrillo para desinfectar la memoria.

If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland. Good morning.

There aren't any lions in England, Lenina almost snapped. And even if there were, the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something.

But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

Truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent.

That's the spirit I like, said the Director

our world is not the same as Othello's world. . . you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.

Silence, silence.' All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty

La felicidad universal conserva los engranajes funcionando con regularidad; la verdad y la belleza, no. Y

In the red darkness glinted innumerable rubies.

The gravitation of sin to sorrow is as certain as that of the earth to the sun...

We should feel wonder at nothing at all in Nature except only the Incarnation of Christ." In the seventeenth century, Lallemant's phrase seemed to make sense. Today it has the ring of madness.

The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book.

Sex is often centre stage in utopias and dystopias – who can do what, with which set of genital organs, and with whom, being one of humanity's main preoccupations.

Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so henious as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.