Quotes by George Orwell

George Orwell

George Orwell

English writer (ps. of Eric Blair)

Lived from: 1903 - 1950

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 june 1903 Died: 21 january 1950

  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
  • I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
  • When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
  • The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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  • All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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  • No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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  • Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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  • A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
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  • A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
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  • A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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  • All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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  • As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.
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  • Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
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  • Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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  • He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
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  • I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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  • I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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  • It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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  • It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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  • Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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  • Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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  • Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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  • Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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What are the most famous quotes from George Orwell?

The two most famous quotes from George Orwell are:

  • "All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
  • "No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."

When did George Orwell live?

George Orwell was born in 1903 and died in the year 1950.