I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.