Money Quotes by George Orwell

Rich people are poor people with money.

— George Orwell

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

— George Orwell

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

— George Orwell

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love…

— George Orwell

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

— George Orwell

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

— George Orwell

“Faith, hope, money - only a saint could have the first two without having the third.”

— George Orwell

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

— George Orwell

“It is a fact that any rich man, unless he is a Jew, has less to fear from Fascism than from either…

— George Orwell

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

— George Orwell

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

— George Orwell

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate…

— George Orwell

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about…

— George Orwell

“Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money…

— George Orwell

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money,…

— George Orwell

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms…

— George Orwell

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for…

— George Orwell

“In Paris, if you had no money and could not find a public bench, you would sit on the pavement. Heaven knows…

— George Orwell

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the…

— George Orwell

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all…

— George Orwell

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

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction…

— George Orwell

“I said. ‘It seems to me that when you take a man’s money away he’s fit for nothing from that moment.’ ‘No,…

— George Orwell

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…

— George Orwell

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications…

— George Orwell

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could…

— George Orwell

“In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be…

— George Orwell

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,…

— George Orwell

“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even,…

— George Orwell

“In the old days [it ran], before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was…

— George Orwell

“Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The bending poplars, newly bare, And the dark ribbons of the chimneys Veer downward; flicked by…

— George Orwell

“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram…

— George Orwell

“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

— George Orwell

“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said,…

— George Orwell

“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which…

— George Orwell

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and…

— George Orwell