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Money Quotes by George Orwell

45 Money quotes by George Orwell

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George Orwell suggests that swapping charity for money changes a text’s meaning, and he lists money, athleticism, fine clothes and a charming smile as basic ingredients for success. He also criticizes the new moneyed class for its reckless irresponsibility today.

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Rich people are poor people with money.

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

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All human relationships must be purchased with money.

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are…

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Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

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“Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit,…

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If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Those things don’t really matter. I mean, things like having no money and not having enough to eat. Even when you’re practically…

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The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

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