Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.