"Modern English, especially written English, is full..." - Quote by George Orwell

“From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.”

“Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.”

“Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.”

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”

“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.”

“This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.”

“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

“By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.”

“The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.”