The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

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.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.