George Orwell

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

George Orwell

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

George Orwell

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

George Orwell

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.

George Orwell

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

George Orwell

It’s a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter the year But all throughout each day of the year There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

George Orwell

It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.

George Orwell

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

George Orwell

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

George Orwell