




- Movie
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Year
- 1984
- Character
- O’Brien
- Actor
- Richard Burton
O’Brien is a dangerous informant for ‘The Party’, who entraps Winston Smith into treasonous discussion, and then brings him in to be brainwashed under torture.
Nineteen Eighty-Four – O’Brien Quotes
O’Brien: Smith? I have been reading your Newspeak articles in the Times.
Winston Smith: 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?
Winston Smith: No… we’re still using the 9th Edition at MinRec.
O’Brien: A few advance copies have been circulated – I have one myself.
[pause]O’Brien: You might be interested?
Winston Smith: Yes!
O’Brien: There are some plusskillful new developments. Let me give you my address.
[gives Winston a card]
O’Brien: I am usually at home in the evenings. If I am not there, then my servant will give you the Dictionary.
Winston Smith: They got you too?
O’Brien: They got me a long time ago.
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother even exist?
O’Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: No, I mean… does he exist like you or me?
O’Brien: You do not exist.
O’Brien: You once asked me, Winston, what was in room 101. I think you know. Everyone does. The thing that is in room 101… is the worst thing in the world.
O’Brien: Power is not a means, it’s an end.
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