News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

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