History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.