O'BRIEN in Classic Quotes

1  Momentarily he caught O'Brien's eye.

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

2  Even O'Brien's heavy face was flushed.

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

3  Suddenly he began thinking of O'Brien again.

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

4  'I am with you,' O'Brien seemed to be saying to him.

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

5  It was O'Brien who had spoken to him out of the dark.

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

6  He had gone back to his cubicle without looking at O'Brien again.

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

7  Winston had seen O'Brien perhaps a dozen times in almost as many years.

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

8  He knew, with more certainty than before, that O'Brien was on his side.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

9  O'Brien was a large, burly man with a thick neck and a coarse, humorous, brutal face.

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

10  The face of O'Brien, not called up by any obvious association, had floated into his mind.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

11  Much more it was because of a secretly held belief--or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope--that O'Brien's political orthodoxy was not perfect.

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

12  He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O'Brien's urbane manner and his prize-fighter's physique.

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

13  Winston had never been able to feel sure--even after this morning's flash of the eyes it was still impossible to be sure whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy.

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

14  The other person was a man named O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party and holder of some post so important and remote that Winston had only a dim idea of its nature.

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

15  At this moment O'Brien glanced at his wrist-watch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and evidently decided to stay in the Records Department until the Two Minutes Hate was over.

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

16  He could not now remember whether it was before or after having the dream that he had seen O'Brien for the first time, nor could he remember when he had first identified the voice as O'Brien's.

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

17  He was writing the diary for O'Brien--TO O'Brien: it was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its colour from that fact.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7