WINSTON WAS in Classic Quotes

1  Winston was dreaming of his mother.

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

2  Winston was good at this kind of thing.

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

3  For a few seconds Winston was too paralysed to move.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

4  Winston was smoking a Victory Cigarette which he held carefully horizontal.

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

5  Five seconds later, with a thundering heart, Winston was sitting at the girl's table.

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

6  A small, sandy-haired woman who worked in the next cubicle to Winston was between them.

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

7  But what most struck Winston was the look of helpless fright on the woman's greyish face.

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

8  Winston was married--had been married, at any rate: probably he still was married, so far as he knew his wife was not dead.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

9  This, Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted in with the general ideology of the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

10  Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week.

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

11  By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went.

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

12  This was the kind of thing that Winston was good at, and for more than two hours he succeeded in shutting the girl out of his mind altogether.

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

13  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
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  To one side of it there was a shallow alcove in which Winston was now sitting, and which, when the flats were built, had probably been intended to hold bookshelves.

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

15  The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible.

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

16  Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was working, but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him.

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

17  The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet of saccharine.

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