Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

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