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English 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.
- The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
- All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are…
- To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a…
- 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 -…
- Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English…
- No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since,…
- Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take…
- If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,…
- Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed…
- The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not…
- To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
- Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language…
- I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
- The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
More English Quotes
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
- 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my… — Christian Bale
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
- I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley