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Perhaps Quotes by George Orwell
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
- A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
- One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any…
- Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
- Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
- She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
- Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
- Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
- Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes…
- For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun