Sentimental, you say? Anti-social? Oughtn't to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.