He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

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

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.