A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.