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George Orwell Quotes - Page 28

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they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

Dog, Mind, Watches

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

Wisdom, Class, Soul

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

Book, Penguins, Splendid

George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

Animal, Pleasure, Masters

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

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

Ideas, Inheritance, Contradiction

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

Impact, Sound, Pleasure

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

Fear, Stupid, People

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

Selfish, Lying, Writing

1946 'Why I Write'.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

Honesty, Lying, Fall

George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

Want, Animalism, Comrade

Peter Hall, George Orwell (1993). “The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.31, Heinemann

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

Book, Writing, Should Have

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

Two, Legs, Four

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Tails, Given

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.1, Hamilton Books

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

Thinking, Everyday, Phrases

George Orwell (1958). “Selected writings”

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

Past, Race, Years

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.

Baby, Political, Natural

George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

Life And Death, Alive, Want

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

Doctrine, Instance, Persons

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

War, Eye, Beer

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Air Power, Weapons, Serious

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

Loss, Differences, Profound

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1999). “A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Power, Bombs, Faces

George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

Football, Hurt, Games

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

Gun, Heroism, Mouths

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Life, Differences, Long

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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