George Orwell

Good writing is like a windowpane. ”

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. ”

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. ”

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. ”

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ”

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ”

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ”

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ”

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ”

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ”