Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'