--- title: "7 Forgotten Quotes By George Orwell" description: "7 Forgotten quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Forgotten sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/george-orwell-57_art_during-five-literary-generations-every-e_313667.jpg" --- > [During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/during-five-literary-generations-every-enlightened-person-had/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/george-orwell-57_art_during-five-literary-generations-every-e_313667.jpg) > [The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-only-thing-for-which-we-can-combine-is-the-underlying-ideal-of/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef5/george-orwell-57_buried_the-only-thing-for-which-we-can-combine_326616.jpg) > [It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-intended-that-when-newspeak-had-been-adopted-once-and-for-all/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b49/george-orwell-57_adopted_it-was-intended-that-when-newspeak-had-b_802402.jpg) > [It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-struck-him-that-in-moments-of-crisis-one-is-never-fighting-against/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/george-orwell-57_body_it-struck-him-that-in-moments-of-crisis_897897.jpg) > [It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-true-that-there-was-no-such-person-as-comrade-oglivy-but-a-few/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/george-orwell-57_comrade_it-was-true-that-there-was-no-such-perso_1067107.jpg) > [The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-past-was-erased-the-erasure-was-forgotten-the-lie-became-the-truth/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/george-orwell-57_forgotten_the-past-was-erased-the-erasure-was-forg_1498041.jpg) > [People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/people-simply-disappeared-always-during-the-night-your-name-was/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/011/george-orwell-57_denied_people-simply-disappeared-always-during_2590138.jpg) ## Other authors on Forgotten ## 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/forgotten/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "7 Forgotten Quotes By George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/during-five-literary-generations-every-enlightened-person-had/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/george-orwell-57_art_during-five-literary-generations-every-e_313667.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/george-orwell-57_art_during-five-literary-generations-every-e_313667.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/george-orwell-57_art_during-five-literary-generations-every-e_313667.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time…” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. 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