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

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.