WORK in Classic Quotes

1  It was the signal to return to work.

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

2  He had to be back at work by fourteen-thirty.

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

3  Winston's greatest pleasure in life was in his work.

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

4  He would finish smoking it after work, if he could keep the tobacco in it.

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

5  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

6  He rolled up the completed bundle of work and slid it into the pneumatic tube.

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

7  So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance.

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

8  A kilometre away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape.

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

9  He re-adjusted his spectacles on his nose, sighed, and drew the next batch of work towards him, with the scrap of paper on top of it.

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

10  Fortunately the piece of work he was engaged on was mere routine, the rectification of a long list of figures, not needing close attention.

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

11  I can remember when a thing like that would have fetched eight pounds, and eight pounds was--well, I can't work it out, but it was a lot of money.

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

12  Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds.

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

13  Children no older than you had to work twelve hours a day for cruel masters who flogged them with whips if they worked too slowly and fed them on nothing but stale breadcrusts and water.

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

14  So tricky a piece of work would never be entrusted to a single person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a committee would be to admit openly that an act of fabrication was taking place.

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

15  Big Brother's Order for the Day, it seemed, had been chiefly devoted to praising the work of an organization known as FFCC, which supplied cigarettes and other comforts to the sailors in the Floating Fortresses.

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

16  With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles.

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

17  They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty.

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