The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.