Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley. The title derives from a line spoken by "Miranda" in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, which is quoted by "The Savage" in the novel: "O brave new world, That has such people in't!"

Quotes

• Bokanovsky's process is one of the major instruments of social stability!
  • A reference to the importance that the World State attaches to human cloning.

• They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle--thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate.
  • Rumor as explained by Fanny Crowne as to why Alpha-Plus Bernard Marx looked and acted odd.

• One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
  • Bernard Marx's comments on the preceding slogan and an analysis on the effects of state-sponsored sleep teaching.

• Community, Identity, Stability.
  • The motto of the World State.

• No social stability without individual stability.
  • Refers to mass use of soma to create "stable" citizens who conform to societal norms.

• Christianity without tears — that's what soma is.
  • Mustapha Mond's summarisation of the hypnotic, revered drug soma.

• All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
  • Another summarisation of the drug soma.

• But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
  • John's interpretation of social norms being restrictive, denying him the opportunity to experience the human condition.

• In fact, you are claiming the right to be unhappy.
  • Mustapha Mond's response to the previous quote.

• Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!
  Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
  Skies are blue inside of you
  The weather's always fine;
  For
  There ain't no Bottle in all the world
  Like that dear little Bottle of mine.
  
  • Lyrics of a popular computer-generated song referring to how babies are artifically gestated.

• Ford's in his flivver, all's well with the world.

• One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable to inflict upon our enemies.

• I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
  • Bernard Marx

• Hug me till you drug me, honey;
  Kiss me till I'm in a coma:
  Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
  Love's as good as soma.
  

• "O brave new world," he repeated. "O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."
  • John quotes Shakespeare's The Tempest when hearing of the technologies and customs of civilization. a more extensive quotation reads "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!"

• Feel how the Greater Being comes!
  Rejoice and, in rejoicing die!
  Melt in the music of the drums!
  For I am you and you are I

• Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,
  Kiss the girls and make them One.
  Boys at one with girls at peace;
  Orgy-porgy gives release.
  

• True happiness must seem rather squalid compared to the overcompensations of misery.

• As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
  • This is actually a quotation of William Shakespeare from King Lear.

• (CH₃)C₆H₂(NO₂)₃ + Hg(CNO)₂ = well, what? An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums–the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!

• "The multitudinous seas incarnadine."
  • The Savage uses a direct quote from Shakespeare's "MacBeth" (Act II, scene ii). MacBeth is noting that there is enough of Duncan's blood on his hands to turn the seas red.

• "Eternity was in our lips and eyes"
  • John quotes Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"

Hypnopædia

Hypnopædia is used throughout the novel to condition children into certain societal standards, predetermined for their apparent benefit.

• A gramme is better than a damn.
  • Slogan encouraging use of the fictional narcotic soma.

• A gramme in time saves nine.
  • Slogans encouraging use of soma.

• One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.
  • Slogan encouraging people not to dwell on gloomy thoughts, but to obliterate them with the fictional narcotic, soma.

• When the individual feels, the community reels
  • A slogan discouraging individualism in favor of the community as a whole.

• Every one belongs to every one else.
  • Government slogans encouraging sociability and sexual promiscuity.

• Everybody's happy nowadays.

• Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons.

• Progress is lovely.

• Ending is better than mending.
  • A government slogan encouraging people to throw away old possessions and buy new ones, thus theoretically keeping the global economy strong.

• ...all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They...
  • A Hypnopædic message played to Beta children as a conditioning tool.

• Cleanliness is next to fordliness.
  • The second hypnopædic lesson in elementary hygiene.

• Civilization is sterilization.

• Streptocock-Gee to Banbury-T, to see a fine bathroom and W.C.

• A, B, C, Vitamin D,
  The fat's in the liver and the cod's in the sea.

• A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away. (Related to "an apple a day keeps the doctor away")
  • A Hypnopædic message on the necessity of doctoral visits.

• I do love new Clothes.
  • A message promoting consumerism.

• The more stitches, the less riches.
  • A message promoting consumerism.