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""Ah, that is different!" said Boxer. "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.""
"..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years."
"a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls."
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
"All of these facts are grossly obvious if one's emotions do not happen to be involved: but to the kind of person named in each case they are also intolerable, and so they have to be denied, and false theories constructed upon their denial."
"An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."
"And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money."