Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.