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.
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher’s daughter.
In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency...
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.