George Orwell Quotes

George Orwell Quotes.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell
It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell