George Orwell's Quotes

George Orwell's Quotes 114

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no...

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their...

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think...

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some...

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is...

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first...

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings...

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

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

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man but only in certain...

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the...

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it...

As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its...

Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in...

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's...

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit...

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand...

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