1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one’s grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

The more men you’ve had, the more I love you.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism – robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.” “Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Always yell with the crowd, that’s what I say. It’s the only way to be safe.