"There are few who would not rather be……" — Aldous Huxley

"There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation."

— Aldous Huxley

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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

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More Adultery Quotes

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,… — Bono
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,… — Samuel Butler
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do… — Jimmy Carter
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a… — W. Somerset Maugham
Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other… — Dan Savage
The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and… — R.J. Rushdoony
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have… — St. Jerome

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