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Modern Quotes by George Orwell
- The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
- 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,…
- 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…
- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.…
- In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally,…
More Modern Quotes
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov