Burmese Days quotes
11 quotes from Burmese Days by George Orwell, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About George Orwell
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.
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