Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.