The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.