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After Quotes by George Orwell
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
- After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
- When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon…
- He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind…
- Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it…
- Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
- It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by…
- For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is…
- The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
- The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you…
- Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch…
- Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in…
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood