Failure Quote by George Orwell

“What a revolution in her ideas!”

— Jane Austen

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But…

— Anne Perry

“She could work any situation to her advantage, instantly turning herself into the life of the party, whether it was some soirée for an…

— Barry Brennessel

“Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and…

— Ian McEwan

“She couldn’t get free and she couldn’t pop missus on the back of her head with a cane, but she could take her silk.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals.”

— Cory Doctorow

“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that she herself…

— George Orwell

“The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the…

— George Orwell

“she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one...”

— Lynne Withey

“Great, the English had sent her to her death accompanied by two village idiots. Not that it mattered anymore how her life ended, but…

— E.B. Brown

“Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party.”

— Charles Dickens

“But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to…

— Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs