english quotes for memorisation

A collection of vocabulary flashcards based on key themes and literary devices present in 'The Great Gatsby' and '1984', focusing on identity, power, and the nature of reality.

Her voice is full of money.

That was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.

In his blue gardens

Men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak

Is to narrow the range of thought?

It's a beautiful thing

The destruction of words.

So we beat on

Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I'm going to fix everything

Just the way it was before. She'll see.

Who controls the past

Controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

At the time when it happens

You do mean it.

He knew that when he kissed this girl

And forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

They weren't happy, and neither of them

Had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren't unhappy either.

Under the spreading chestnut tree

I sold you and you sold me.

The terrible thing that the Party had done

Was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account.

The valley of ashes

Is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and, when the drawbridge is up… the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene.

They were careless people

Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.

If there is hope

It lies in the proles.

The proles, normally apathetic about the war

Were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism.

Gatsby believed in the green light

The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.

Doublethink means the power of holding

Two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously…

Can't repeat the past?

Why of course you can!

Perhaps a lunatic was simply

A minority of one.

I was within and without

Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg

Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself…

Perhaps one did not want to be loved

So much as to be understood.

The Party told you to reject

The evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…

Casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, often involving details that are not confirmed as true.

Her voice is full of money.

The pointlessness or uselessness of an action; often associated with striving against an inevitable outcome.

Power is not a means; it is an end…

Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern; a common trait in oppressed societies.

If you want a picture of the future

Imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

The loneliest moment in someone's life

Is when they are watching their whole world fall apart…

The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak—

Was startlingly different from any other object in sight.

Doublethink means the power of holding

Two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously…

Can't repeat the past?

Why of course you can!

He had come a long way to this blue lawn,

And his dream must have seemed so close…

Until they become conscious

They will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.