By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

the mute protest in your own bones

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!