Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
She runs the gamut of emotions from a to b.
Living well is the best revenge.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing england in a phrase.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. lies will pass into history.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.