« All Day Quotes · George Orwell's Page
Day Quotes by George Orwell
- Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will…
- The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which…
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
- The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under…
- To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just…
- Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding…
- it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have…
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
- Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong