If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!