George Orwell Quotes - Page 29

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• 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?

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Lying, Fall

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

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• Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

  George Orwell

  Disappointment, Law, Long

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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• Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Wish, Earth

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

  George Orwell

  Hands, Long, Together

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Hatred, Sorrow

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

  George Orwell

  Song, Military, Lectures

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

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• Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

  George Orwell

  Men, Long, Important

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

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• What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

  George Orwell

  Years, Work Out, Secret

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

  George Orwell

  Facts, Language, Said

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The end was contained in the beginning.

  George Orwell

  Ends

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.121, Arcturus Publishing

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• You were the dead; theirs was the future.

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.169, Arcturus Publishing

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• And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

  George Orwell

  Cry, Moments, Hundred

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

  George Orwell

  Done, Fool

  "Shooting an Elephant" (1936)

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• On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

  George Orwell

  Wall, Years, Dating

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

  George Orwell

  Years, Knowing, Together

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Tails, Given

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

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• Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Taken, Cat

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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

  George Orwell

  Want, Animalism, Comrade

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

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• Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

  George Orwell

  Flower, Fruit, Should

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• The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

  George Orwell

  Heart, Rooms, Crystals

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

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Air Power, Weapons, Serious

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

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Heroism, Mouths

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

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

  George Orwell

  Life And Death, Alive, Want

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

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• A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

  George Orwell

  Men, Obesity, Robust

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

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• All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

  George Orwell

  Law, Profound, Wickedness

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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