1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist.

If you have your lower animals to contend with,’ he said, ’we have our lower classes!

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.

You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards,? he told her.