George Orwell quotes about courage
8 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as George Orwell wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 146 in the full collection.
Bravery is not enough. Loyalty and obedience are more important.
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion.
Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
They can make you say anything--ANYTHING--but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you.
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- A Clergyman's Daughter quotes · 10 lines (1935)
- Animal Farm quotes · 11 lines (1945)
- Burmese Days quotes · 11 lines (1934)
- Coming Up for Air quotes · 12 lines (1939)
- Critical Essays quotes · 14 lines (1946)
- Down and Out in Paris and London quotes · 8 lines (1933)
- Homage to Catalonia quotes · 12 lines (1938)
- Inside the Whale and Other Essays quotes · 10 lines (1940)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying quotes · 10 lines (1936)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four quotes · 17 lines (1949)
- The Lion and the Unicorn quotes · 13 lines (1941)
- The Road to Wigan Pier quotes · 11 lines (1937)
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