George Orwell quotes about hope
9 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.
I will work harder!
I don't want the women, I don't even want to be young again. I only want to be alive.
All revolutions are failures, but they are not all the same failure.
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out.
One had been in a community where hope was more normal than apathy or cynicism, where the word 'comrade' stood for comradeship and not, as in most countries, for humbug.
Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
I believe in England, and I believe that we shall go forward.
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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