INVENT in Classic Quotes

1  There was no knowing how much of this legend was true and how much invented.

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

2  She believed, for instance, having learnt it at school, that the Party had invented aeroplanes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

3  It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes.

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

4  The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

5  The greatest difficulty facing the compilers of the Newspeak Dictionary was not to invent new words, but, having invented them, to make sure what they meant: to make sure, that is to say, what ranges of words they cancelled by their existence.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

6  He might turn the speech into the usual denunciation of traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might complicate the records too much.

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