The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.