Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

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

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.