The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.