“Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”

“Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.”

“Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing to do was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.”

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”

“Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.”