All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.