« All Sort Quotes · George Orwell's Page
Sort Quotes by George Orwell
- Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the…
- 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…
- A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things…
- Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
- A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
- He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate…
- His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
- When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For…
- The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the…
- There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a…
- I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary…
- 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 Sort Quotes
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. — Jane Austen