George Orwell quotes

Napoleon is always right.

Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?

That is our victory.

In any town in India the European Club is the spiritual citadel, the real seat of the British power, the Nirvana for which native officials and millionaires pine in vain.

No European cares anything about proofs. When a man has a black face, suspicion is proof.

The official holds the Burman down while the businessman goes through his pockets.

Why, of course, the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them.

You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself.

But it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

If my standing iss good, they will not believe it of me; if bad, they will believe it. Prestige iss all.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy.

All Englishmen are virtuous when they are dead.

There is no armour against fate.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Fear! We swim in it. It's our element.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

There's time for everything except the things worth doing.

A feeling of security, even when they weren't secure. More exactly, it was a feeling of continuity.

It's easy enough to die if the things you care about are going to survive.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

I'm not frightened of the war, only the after-war.

I don't want the women, I don't even want to be young again. I only want to be alive.