Suzanna HamiltonQuotes

Winston Smith: [admiring a woman who sings a Party-made prole song] She's beautiful.

Julia: She's a metre across the hips, easily.

Winston Smith: That's her style of beauty. The future is hers. We are the dead.

Julia: We are the dead.

Big Brother: You are the dead.

Big Brother: Remain exactly where you are. Make no move until you are ordered.

Julia: Now they can see us.

Big Brother: Now we can see you. Clasp your hands behind your head. Stand back to back. Do not touch one another.

Winston Smith: The house is surrounded.

Big Brother: The house is surrounded.

Julia: I suppose we may as well say good-bye.

Big Brother: [[w:Oranges and Lemons|Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!] You may as well say good-bye. While we are on the subject, "]

Winston Smith: It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

Julia: If you mean confessing, we're bound to do that. Everybody does. You can't help it.

Winston Smith: I don't mean confessing. Confessing isn't betrayal. I mean feelings. If they can make me change my feelings. If they can stop me from loving you, that would be real betrayal.

Julia: They can't do that. It's the one thing they can't do. They can torture you, make you say anything. But they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you. They can't get to your heart.

Winston Smith: Look, I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere! I want everyone corrupt.

Julia: Well, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the core.

Winston Smith: Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me...

Julia: I adore it.