George Orwell Quotes - Page 25

Quotes about:

Acceptance Achievement Advertising Age Animals Art Atheism

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

George Orwell

Envy, Suffering, Tragedy

George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

5 Copy quote
Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

George Orwell

Cures, Sane, Knows

4 Copy quote
I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

George Orwell

Cost, London, Facts

George Orwell (1972). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

4 Copy quote
It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

George Orwell

Cat, Done, Found

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

4 Copy quote
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

George Orwell

Art, Book, Literature

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

7 Copy quote
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

George Orwell

Civilization, Clothes, Gestures

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

4 Copy quote
it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

George Orwell

Dream, Heart, Looks

13 Copy quote
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

George Orwell

Party, Fighting, Warrior

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.84, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

7 Copy quote
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

George Orwell

Book, Men, Rich Or Poor

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

4 Copy quote
Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

George Orwell

Acceptance

4 Copy quote
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

George Orwell

Ideas, Together, Indestructible

George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.55, Dramatic Publishing

5 Copy quote
Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

George Orwell

"Nineteen Eighty-Four".

4 Copy quote
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

George Orwell

Fear, War, Atheism

"1984".

4 Copy quote
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

Peace, War, Essentials

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

8 Copy quote
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

George Orwell

Past, Agreement, Evil

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

10 Copy quote
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

George Orwell

1984 Important, Neurologists, Abolish

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

62 Copy quote
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

George Orwell

Ideas, Age, Peculiar

"Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

4 Copy quote
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

George Orwell

War, Survival, Consciousness

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

10 Copy quote
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

George Orwell

War, Party, Independent

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

4 Copy quote
Weakness is strength.

George Orwell

Bible, Weakness

4 Copy quote
Reality is inside the skull.

George Orwell

Reality, Skulls

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

28 Copy quote
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

George Orwell

Lonely, Ghost

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

4 Copy quote
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

George Orwell

Writing, Mind, Trying

4 Copy quote
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

George Orwell

Safety, Soul, Together

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.1256, Penguin UK

4 Copy quote
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

George Orwell

Girl, Art, Law

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

5 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

George Orwell

Follow

Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
Occupation: Novelist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics