Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness.
Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes
A bad book is as much labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
Perhaps, too, it’s as well that Denis hasn’t been permitted to flower into a little Nero, and that Ivor remains only potentially a Caligula. Yes, it’s better so, no doubt. But it would have been more amusing, as a spectacle, if they had had the chance to develop, untrammelled, the full horror of their potentialities. […]
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author’s soul.
Nonsense is an assertion of man’s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.
