Aldous Huxley

The discontent rankled under the surface, like a suppressed measles.

I glory in the name of earwig.

He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

She blackmailed him with sacrifice.

For it is good to have seen something of the world with childish eyes, disinterestedly and uncritically, observing not what is useful or beautiful and interesting, but only such things as, to a being less than four feet high and having no knowledge of life or art, seem immediately significant.

Ah, the problem that was himself, the problem that was other people.

Money brings no satisfaction if one has to work for it; for if one works for it one has no time to spend it.

“Ah, how I envy the calm of those Chinese dynasties!”

Gumbril leaned back in his chair and thought of his own character, with dates.

We are all parallel straight lines. Jenny was only a little more parallel than most.

One should be loyal to one’s tastes and instincts.

Beauty is a letter of recommendation which it is almost impossible to ignore; and we attribute too often the ugliness of the face to the character.

How late in one's existence one makes the discovery of one's body!

We are all apt to value unduly those things which happen to belong to us.

His nerves were twittering and jumping within him; he felt like a walking aviary.

Liberty? why, it doesn’t exist! There’s no liberty in this world; only gilded cages.

“You speak as though I were a child in a new frock,” he said, with a show of irritation.

When one is in high spirits, memento mori’s cease to remind.

But my interest in my own personality and my own fate was so enormous that it seemed to me, somehow, that everything said about me must have a certain significance.

She had half a mile in which to invent the necessary lies.