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Wish Quotes by George Orwell
- I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts…
- 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…
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
- Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face…
- Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should…
- I have no wish to take life, not even human life
More Wish 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
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius