NEVER in Classic Quotes

1  Such incidents never had any sequel.

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

2  Officially the change of partners had never happened.

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

3  The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia.

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

4  And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.

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

5  He could never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture of emotions.

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

6  Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it.

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

7  Winston had never made the smallest effort to verify this guess: indeed, there was no way of doing so.

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

8  A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police.

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

9  For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.

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

10  He had committed--would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself.

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

11  In his childish way Winston grasped that some terrible thing, something that was beyond forgiveness and could never be remedied, had just happened.

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

12  The landscape that he was looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he was never fully certain whether or not he had seen it in the real world.

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

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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.

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

16  Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.

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

17  But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were--in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less.

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