If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.