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.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.