George Orwell

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

George Orwell

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

George Orwell

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

George Orwell

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug – that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

George Orwell

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

George Orwell

The more intelligent, the less sane.

George Orwell

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

George Orwell