List of George Orwell Quotes

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About George Orwell

  • Born: June 25, 1903
  • Died: January 21, 1950
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • 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.
    Art Book Literature
    It [england] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
    Uncles Aunt Hands
    Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. the enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.
    Country War Evil
    And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
    Bed Boots Great Things
    There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. all competing pleasures will be destroyed. but always— do not forget this, winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.
    Forever Enemy Victory
    Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
    Book Majority Doe
    [you write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. it is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.
    Strong Clever Writing
    The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. and in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
    Real Practice Warfare
    I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an english public school. here at least one cannot say that english ‘education’ fails to do its job. you forget your latin and greek within a few months of leaving school — i studied greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, i cannot even repeat the greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.
    Jobs Latin School
    The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. all who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. only child life is real life.
    Children Real Thinking
    There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. it is summed up in a single word-- man
    Men Answers Problem
    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.
    Book Men Rich Or Poor
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