1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

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

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.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.