Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.