George Orwell quotes about war aftermath
10 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.
Fear! We swim in it. It's our element.
Fishing is the opposite of war.
I'm not frightened of the war, only the after-war.
Coming up for air! But there isn't any air. The dustbin that we're in reaches up to the stratosphere.
Wells is too sane to understand the modern world.
…the events of 1941 do not convict Wodehouse of anything worse than stupidity.
The phrase "Great War", when it occurs in the earlier essays, refers to the war of 1914-18. It still seemed great in those days.
But notice the phrase 'necessary murder'. It could only be written by a person to whom murder is at most a word.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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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