If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
