George Orwell Quotes

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

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

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.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Big Brother is watching you.

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

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.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

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.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.