Aldous Huxley Novel Quotations

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.