FOUR in Classic Quotes

1  I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children.

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

2  Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

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

3  Winston examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled.

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

4  She had named a place where they could meet after work, four evenings hence.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3

5  Now, if it so happened that you wanted to buy it, that'd cost you four dollars.

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

6  The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left.

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

7  The old man had grown noticeably more cheerful after receiving the four dollars.

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

8  Winston immediately paid over the four dollars and slid the coveted thing into his pocket.

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

9  They were perhaps four metres apart when the girl stumbled and fell almost flat on her face.

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

10  They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided.

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

11  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

12  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

13  So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously.

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

14  Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders of paper which had already flopped out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk.

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

15  He would inform you with quiet pride, between whiffs of his pipe, that he had put in an appearance at the Community Centre every evening for the past four years.

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

16  Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.

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

17  So, one evening every week, Winston spent four hours of paralysing boredom, screwing together small bits of metal which were probably parts of bomb fuses, in a draughty, ill-lit workshop where the knocking of hammers mingled drearily with the music of the telescreens.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3