1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

From his refined accent, quiet voice and apparent omniscience, I took him for a librarian.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie...a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

To survive you often have to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself; who gives your arguments a fair hearing and simply persists in his lunacy?

Windmill or no windmill, he said life would go on as it has always gone on—that is, badly.