1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.

To mark the paper was the decisive act.

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

This life we live nowadays. It’s not life, it’s stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we’re all corpses. Just rotting upright.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness.

Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.

If you have no money, men won’t care for you, women won’t love you; won’t, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

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.