Lenina Quotes

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

‘I’d simply love to come with you for a week in July,’ she went on. (Anyhow, she was publicly proving her unfaithfulness to Henry. Fanny ought to be pleased, even though it was Bernard.) ‘That is,’ Lenina gave him her most deliciously significant smile, ‘if you still want to have me.’

He couldn’t look more upset if I’d made a dirty joke--asked him who his mother was, or something like that.

“Well, now she had said it and he was still wretched--wretched that she should have thought it such a perfect afternoon for Obstacle Golf, that she should have trotted away to join Henry Foster, that she should have found him funny for not wanting to talk of their most private affairs in public.”

″‘I’m glad I’m not an Epsilon,’ said Lenina, with conviction. ‘And if you were an Epsilon,’ said Henry, ‘your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha.‘”

Walking and talking--that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

“I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays.”

“Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.”

″‘What a hideous colour khaki is,’ remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopædic prejudices of her caste.”

″‘My word,’ said Lenina, ‘I’m glad I’m not a Gamma.‘”