She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.