Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.