One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.