--- title: "6 Details Quotes By George Orwell" description: "6 Details quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Details sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/george-orwell-57_bad-language_the-inflated-style-is-itself-a-kind-of-e_755483.jpg" --- > [The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-inflated-style-is-itself-a-kind-of-euphemism-a-mass-of-latin/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/george-orwell-57_bad-language_the-inflated-style-is-itself-a-kind-of-e_755483.jpg) > [It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-could-not-have-been-ten-seconds-and-yet-it-seemed-a-long-time-that/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbf/george-orwell-57_details_it-could-not-have-been-ten-seconds-and-y_1040164.jpg) > [Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/only-old-benjamin-professed-to-remember-every-detail-of-his-long-life/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/george-orwell-57_details_only-old-benjamin-professed-to-remember_1879575.jpg) > [Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/facts-at-any-rate-could-not-be-kept-hidden-they-could-be-tracked-down/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9aa/george-orwell-57_alive_facts-at-any-rate-could-not-be-kept-hidd_1882094.jpg) > [The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-whole-experience-of-being-hit-by-a-bullet-is-very-interesting-and/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bf/george-orwell-57_bullets_the-whole-experience-of-being-hit-by-a-b_2370819.jpg) > [A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-mass-of-latin-words-falls-upon-the-facts-like-soft-snow-blurring-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/923/george-orwell-57_age_a-mass-of-latin-words-falls-upon-the-fac_3058693.jpg) ## Other authors on Details ## More by George Orwell > [In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-the-nineteenth-century-some-parts-of-the-world-were-unexplored-but/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-given-out-that-the-animals-there-practised-cannibalism/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-actual-writing-would-be-easy-all-he-had-to-do-was-to-transfer-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-felt-as-though-he-were-wandering-in-the-forests-of-the-sea-bottom/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-you-took-1-corinthians-chapter-thirteen-and-in-every-verse-wrote/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Happiness can exist only in acceptance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/happiness-can-exist-only-in-acceptance/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-if-all-others-accepted-the-lie-which-the-party-imposed-if-all/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whitman-himself-accepted-a-great-deal-that-his-contemporaries-found/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-i-tell-you-winston-that-reality-is-not-external-reality-exists-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-people-under-the-sky-were-also-very-much-the-same-everywhere/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/don-t-you-see-that-the-whole-aim-of-newspeak-is-to-narrow-the-range/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/windmill-or-no-windmill-he-said-life-would-go-on-as-it-had-always/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-the-only-creature-that-consumes-without-producing-he-does-not/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-bigger-the-fall-the-bigger-the-joke-it-would-be-better-fun-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/any-writer-or-journalist-who-wants-to-retain-his-integrity-finds/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/details/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "6 Details Quotes By George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. 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