"Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine…" — George Orwell

"Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."

— George Orwell

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627 Quotes by George Orwell

George Orwell has 627 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The belly comes before the soul.
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain…
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand…
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for…
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure…
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere…
"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when…
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever…

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More Elephantine Quotes

This quote is filed under Elephantine Quotes, one of 6 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant… — Madeleine Albright
The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with. — Bette Davis
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign… — Garrison Keillor
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of… — Garrison Keillor
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social… — Simon Schama

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