George Orwell

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.

George Orwell

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

George Orwell

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

George Orwell

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

George Orwell

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

George Orwell

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

George Orwell