“Faith, hope, money - only a saint could have the first two without having the third.” — 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
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. — 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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In Paris, if you had no money and could not find a public bench, you would sit on the pavement. Heaven knows… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — 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
“In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Those things don’t really matter. I mean, things like having no money and not having enough to eat. Even when you’re practically… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — 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 the old days [it ran], before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The bending poplars, newly bare, And the dark ribbons of the chimneys Veer downward; flicked by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that any rich man, unless he is a Jew, has less to fear from Fascism than from either… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — 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