He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

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

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool.