Quotes from book
Crome Yellow

Name: Crome Yellow
Author: Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write.

“When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.”

Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“… one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”

Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“The proper study of mankind is books.”

Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow (1921), Ch. XXVIII