Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.