Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) Quotes

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Nineteen Eighty-Four stopped airing in 1970.

It features Simon Perry as producer, Dominic Muldowney; Eurythmics in charge of musical score, and Roger Deakins as head of cinematography.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) is 110 minutes long. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: John Hurt as Winston Smith, Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, James Walker as Syme, and Cyril Cusack as Charrington.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) Quotes

John Hurt as Winston Smith

• (John Hurt) "They got you too?"
• (O'Brien) "They got me a long time ago."

• (John Hurt) "Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt."
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "Well, I ought to suit you, then. I'm corrupt to the core."
• (John Hurt) "Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me --"
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "I adore it."

• (John Hurt) "I love you."

• (O'Brien) "Get up."
• (John Hurt) "Argh."
• (O'Brien) "Look at you -- you're rotting away."

• (John Hurt) "If there is hope, it lies in the proles. If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them."

• (John Hurt) "Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself."

• (John Hurt) "She's beautiful."
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "She's a metre across the hips, easily."
• (John Hurt) "That is her style of beauty."

• (O'Brien) "What are your feelings towards Big Brother?"
• (John Hurt) "I hate him."
• (O'Brien) "You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him."

• (John Hurt) ""In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." Julia? Are you awake? There is truth, and there is untruth. To be in a minority of one doesn't make you mad."

• (John Hurt) "Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you / You sold me."

• (O'Brien) "Smith? I have been reading your Newspeak articles in the Times."
• (John Hurt) "Yes?"
• (O'Brien) "You write it very elegantly. That is not my own opinion; I was recently talking to a friend of yours who is an expert. His name -- has slipped my memory for the moment. What I wanted to say is that there were one or two unwords, only very recent. Have you seen the 10th Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary?"
• (John Hurt) "No -- we're still using the 9th Edition at MinRec."
• (O'Brien) "A few advance copies have been circulated; I have one myself."
• (O'Brien) "You might be interested?"
• (John Hurt) "Yes."
• (O'Brien) "There are some plusskillful new developments. Let me give you my address."
• (O'Brien) "I am usually at home in the evenings. If I am not there, then my servant will give you the Dictionary."

• (O'Brien) "There are thought criminals who maintain that the resistance is not real. Believe me, Winston, it is very real. Perhaps you are not familiar with how it operates."
• (John Hurt) "I am attentive to the news."
• (O'Brien) "Indeed. Then perhaps you imagine a huge network of conspirators prepared to commit any atrocity to weaken and demoralize the order of our society. The reality is infinitely more subtle. If Goldstein himself fell into the hands of the Thought Police, he could not give them a list of his agents. Such a list does not exist. They are not an organization in the sense we know. Nothing holds it together but an idea. Individually, they cheat, forge, blackmail, corrupt children, spread disease and prostitution, in the name of spreading knowledge from generation to generation, until -- in a thousand years --"

• (John Hurt) "Does Big Brother even exist?"
• (O'Brien) "Of course he exists."
• (John Hurt) "No, I mean -- does he exist like you or me?"
• (O'Brien) "You do not exist."

• (John Hurt) "I know you'll fail. Something in this world -- some spirit you will never overcome --"
• (O'Brien) "What is it, this principle?"
• (John Hurt) "I don't know. The spirit of man."
• (O'Brien) "And do you consider yourself a man?"
• (John Hurt) "Yes."
• (O'Brien) "If you're a man, Winston, you're the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realize that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist. Get up."
• (O'Brien) "That is the last man. If you are human, that is humanity."

• (John Hurt) "It was three years ago, on a dark evening. Easy to slip past the patrols, and I'd gone into the proletarian areas. There was no one else on the street, and no telescreens. She said, "Two dollars," so I went with her. She had a young face, painted very thick. It was really was the paint that appealed to me: white like a mask, and bright red lips. There were no preliminaries. Standing there with the smell of dead insects and cheap perfume, I went and did it just the same."

• (John Hurt) "April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man -- greetings."

• (John Hurt) "How's the Newspeak Committee?"
• (James Walker) "Working overtime. Plusbig waste is in adjectives. Plusbig waste is timing the language to scientific advance."
• (John Hurt) "-- yes."
• (James Walker) "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. You wouldn't have seen the Dictionary 10th edition, would you Smith? It's that thick."
• (James Walker) "The 11th Edition will be that"
• (James Walker) "thick."
• (John Hurt) "So, The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect?"
• (James Walker) "The secret is to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response. No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here"
• (James Walker) ", not from here"
• (James Walker) "."
• (Tillotson's Friend) "Excuse me for intruding. But what you're saying is that we should be rid of the last vestiges of Goldsteinism when the language has been cleaned. I couldn't be more in agreement with you, brother."

• (John Hurt) "We are the dead."

• (John Hurt) "It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "If you mean confessing, we're bound to do that. Everybody does. You can't help it."
• (John Hurt) "I don't mean confessing. Confessing isn't betrayal. I mean feelings. If they can make me change my feelings. If they can stop me from loving you, that would be real betrayal."
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "They can't do that. It's the one thing they can't do. They can torture you, make you say anything. But they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you. They can't get to your heart."

• (O'Brien) "The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens."
• (John Hurt) "I love you."

• (John Hurt) "The future is hers -- we are the dead --"
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "We are the dead --"
• (Big Brother) "YOU ARE THE DEAD."
• (Big Brother) "Remain EXACTLY where you are. Make NO move until you are ordered."
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "Now they can see us --"
• (Big Brother) "NOW WE CAN SEE YOU. Clasp your hands behind your heads. Stand out in the middle of the room. Stand back to back. Do NOT touch one another."
• (John Hurt) "The house is surrounded --"
• (Big Brother) "THE HOUSE IS SURROUNDED."
• (Suzanna Hamilton) "I suppose we may as well say goodbye --"
• (Big Brother) "YOU MAY AS WELL SAY GOODBYE. While we're on the subject, here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head."

Cyril Cusack as Charrington

• (Cyril Cusack) "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements --"
• (John Hurt) "What was that?"
• (Cyril Cusack) "Something old --"

James Walker as Syme

• (James Walker) "Beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

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