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

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  • The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
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  • The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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  • The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
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  • The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
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  • The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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  • The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.
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  • The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
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  • The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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  • There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
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  • There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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  • There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
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  • Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
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  • To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
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  • To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
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  • To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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  • To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
    Source: In Front of Your Nose (1946)
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  • To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
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  • To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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  • To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
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  • Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
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