HAPPY in Classic Quotes

1  'Yes, everybody's happy now,' echoed Lenina.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

2  Mr. Foster was only too happy to give them a few figures.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

3  Her pale, bloated face wore an expression of imbecile happiness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

4  'Oh, I do want you to be happy,' it began, with a yearning earnestness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

5  In spite of all his troubles, he seemed, Bernard thought, profoundly happy.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XII

6  People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVI

7  They worked all day, and all day he was filled with an intense, absorbing happiness.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

8  Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

9  Henry spoke with a happy pride, rejoicing whole-heartedly in the achievement, as though it had been his own.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

10  For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

11  Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

12  Pierced by every word that was spoken, the tight balloon of Bernard's happy self-confidence was leaking from a thousand wounds.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XII

13  In spite of their sadness--because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another--the three young men were happy.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII

14  But though the separating screen of the sky-signs had now to a great extent dissolved, the two young people still retained their happy ignorance of the night.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

15  Then, in a resolutely cheerful voice, 'Anyhow,' he concluded, 'there's one thing we can be certain of; whoever he may have been, he was happy when he was alive.'

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

16  For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently--though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

17  It was the sort of idea that might easily de-condition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes--make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XII