In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his s...ervant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature must become Party literature.... Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature mu...st become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative in...tellectuals, full of witty disloyalties.... The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country.... When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »