"The smell of her sweat was like the smell of honey."

"Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relati…"

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

"I am afraid I have nothing to say about the war, except that it is going to happen."

"Perhaps one of the most alarming things about totalitarianism is that it is not, as is sometimes imagined, a static tyranny, but a dynamic one."