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Among Quotes by George Orwell
- The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
- If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do…
- During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than…
- It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently -…
- The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,…
- All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with…
- Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
- To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in…
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- When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage