Homage to Catalonia quotes

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy.

So great is the difference between two sets of initials!

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

Libel settles nothing.

Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion.

I thought what a good thing it was to be alive in a world where silver poplars grow.

Smillie's death is not a thing I can easily forgive.

Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.

…all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.