Brave New World Quote Identification Quiz

“You can’t make flivvers without steel—and you can’t make tragedies without social instability.”

“Happiness has got to be paid for.”

“Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending.”

“I want to feel something strongly.”

“Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am.”

“Ford’s in his flivver—all’s right with the world.”

“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly.”

“Nothing costs enough here.”

“Don’t you wish you were free, Lenina?”

“Community, Identity, Stability.”

“History is bunk.”

“One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.”

“The more stitches, the less riches.”

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

“We prefer to do things comfortably.”

“I claim them all.”

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism.”

“Ending is better than mending.”

“When the individual feels, the community reels.”

“O brave new world that has such people in’t!”

“Now we are alone,” he said. “Let’s make the most of it.”

“Everybody’s happy now.”

“One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.”

“Everybody’s happy nowadays.”

“Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.”

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.”

“Everyone belongs to everyone else.”

“Progress is lovely, isn’t it?”

“A gramme is better than a damn.”