So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.