He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

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.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.