Never use a long word where a short one will do.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
All art is propaganda.
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
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.
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.