The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The girl from the fiction department… was looking at him [Winston]… She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this? Had food always tasted like this? He… — George Orwell Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And in every detail of your life, if no ultimate purpose redeemed it, there was a quality of greyness, of desolation, that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — George Orwell Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as… — 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
![“The girl from the fiction department… was looking at him [Winston]… She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life… She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated… All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness. She did not understand…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00e/george-orwell-57_1984_the-girl-from-the-fiction-department-was_1023242.jpg)
