1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

The belly comes before the soul.

Napoleon is always right.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.