By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you? — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. — 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 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
