Faces Quotes by George Orwell

22 Faces quotes by George Orwell

If you’ve ever wondered how a writer sees the masks we wear, Orwell’s 22 observations on Faces give you a clear, unflinching look at the social roles and hidden motives that shape everyday encounters.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

Image

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

George Orwell

Image

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

George Orwell

Image

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

George Orwell

Image

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this…

George Orwell

Image

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.…

George Orwell

Image

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

George Orwell

Image

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans…

George Orwell

Image

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut…

George Orwell

Image

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those…

George Orwell

Image

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and…

George Orwell

Image

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,…

George Orwell

Image

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not…

George Orwell

Image

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed…

George Orwell

Image

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to…

George Orwell

Image

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust…

George Orwell

Image

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty…

George Orwell

Image

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in…

George Orwell

Image

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…

George Orwell

Image

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath…

George Orwell

Image

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and…

George Orwell

Image

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.…

George Orwell

Image

Other authors on Faces

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…

George Orwell

Image

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…

George Orwell

Image

“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…

George Orwell

Image

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…

George Orwell

Image

“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…

George Orwell

Image

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Image

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…

George Orwell

Image

“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…

George Orwell

Image

“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…

George Orwell

Image

“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…

George Orwell

Image

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…

George Orwell

Image

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

Image

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…

George Orwell

Image

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

George Orwell

Image

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

George Orwell

Image