People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: People Quotes

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens...

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which...

The proper study of mankind is books.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing...

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing...

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

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

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

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously...

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person...

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve...

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times,...

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times,...

All history is incomprehensible without Christ

All history is incomprehensible without Christ