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Trouble Quotes by George Orwell
- [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny…
- 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…
- A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
- There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of…
- But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
- The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost…
- 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…
More Trouble Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. — David Bailey