George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
daughter writing way
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
writing good-writing thrive
Good writing is like a windowpane.
country tea-drinking civilization
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
stars eye use
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
art lying book
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
autobiography trusted disgraceful
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
empty hollow
You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
government punishment evil
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.
lonely broken long
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
successful eggs two
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, “thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...
lying telling-the-truth propaganda
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
political-language decay chaos
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
inspirational enemy language
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
necklaces generations corpses
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.