The more men you've had, the more I love you.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?