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George Orwell Quotes - Page 16

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Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

Hate, Writing, Men

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

Crazy, Insanity, Minorities

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Answers, Problem, Motto

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Life, Orthodoxy, Unconsciousness

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Love, Children, Adults

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Faces, Miserable, Our Lives

George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.281, Penguin UK

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

Art, Hands, Propaganda

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Book, Gulliver, Lists

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

Writing, Class, People

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Issues, Wish, Important

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Love, Writing, Heart

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

Dog, Knowing, Anxiety

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Latin, Fall, Political Language

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

Running, Writing, Past

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Eye, Two, Trying

George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1346, Penguin UK

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

Funny, Clever, Smart

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Names, Secret, Shapes

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.212, Arcturus Publishing

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

Believe, Voice, Stupidity

1941 In the Partisan Review,15 Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, vol.2.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Liberty, Ribbons

"Complete novels of George Orwell".

Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

Drinking, Beer, Drunk

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Dirty, Naughty, Nasty

Horizon Sept. 1941 "The Art of Donald McGill"

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

Animal, Dignity, Evolution

George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

Sleep, People, Interesting

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

Heart, Years, Tears

George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Long, People, Evil

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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