Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.