You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

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

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.