Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

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

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.