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Keep the Aspidistra Flying quotes

10 quotes from Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), epigraph, after I Corinthians xiii
It isn't a coin, it's the answer to a riddle.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 1
There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 3
Money is what God used to be.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 3
The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 3
It is in the brain and the soul that lack of money damages you.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 3
Failure is as great a swindle as success.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 3
Poverty is spiritual halitosis.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 5
It is not easy to make love in a cold climate when you have no money.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 6
Charity kills friendship.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Chapter 10

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