Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Big Brother is watching you.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.