George-orwell Quotes

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the poin...

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like...

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High...

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort ...

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have ...

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...

Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words an...

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or ...

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old...

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooki...

Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we we...

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as ...

His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outli...

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with...

Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he ca...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...