"I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent']..." - Quote by George Orwell

“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”

“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children”

“The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.”

“Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.”

“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

“As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

“Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.”