It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

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

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.