Aldous Huxley Novelist Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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