1,535 Quotes by George Orwell

The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

Portakal var, limon var, diye çalar çanları St. Clement'inNerde benim üç çeyreğim, diye çalar çanları St. Martin'in!Ödesene şu borcunu,' diye çalar çanları Old Bailey'nin,'Hele bir zengin olayım,' diye çalar çanları Shoreditch'in.

Very early in their married life he had decided – though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people – that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. ‘The human sound-track’ he nicknamed her in his own mind.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.

„Un scriitor scrupulos își va pune cel puțin patru întrebări pentru fiecare propoziție pe care o scrie, astfel: 1. Ce încerc să spun?2. Ce cuvinte vor exprima acest lucru?3. Ce imagine sau expresie îl va face mai clar?4. Este această imagine suficient de proaspătă pentru a avea efect?

...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been re-written, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and building has been re-named, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is WORK? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course--but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless.