KNEW in Classic Quotes

1  It also seemed to him that he knew what it was.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

2  But one knew of such things only through vague rumours.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

3  He did not do so, however, because he knew that it was useless.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

6  He knew it and they knew it, and he could see the knowledge in their faces.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

7  Winston hardly knew Tillotson, and had no idea what work he was employed on.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

8  He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

10  Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

11  Winston knew the man by sight, though he knew no more about him than that he held some important post in the Fiction Department.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

12  All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

13  He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some way the lives of his mother and his sister had been sacrificed to his own.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

14  Winston was just taking his place in one of the middle rows when two people whom he knew by sight, but had never spoken to, came unexpectedly into the room.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  He knew that in the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

16  There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

17  When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4