He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

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.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.