His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Actually it would have made no difference,’ he said. ‘Then why are you sorry you didn’t do it?’ ‘Only because I prefer… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
