1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

This kind of thing is not a good symptom.

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me –.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.

Sentimental, you say? Anti-social? Oughtn’t to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men.

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.