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George Orwell Quotes

British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Worth Stealing Well Who Those

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Violence Others Because Only Who

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Truth Creative Truth Is Important

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Literature Always Above Atmosphere

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

People Temptation Achieve Want Never

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Good Personality True Nothing Write

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Human Human Beings Heroic Pinch

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.

Eyes Best Child Looking Reason Seen

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Power Mind Two Beliefs Means Both

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Good Men Development Technical Only

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Responsibility People Never Sense

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Truth Unhappy Look Back Say His

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