"in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies , evasions , ...
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
More George Orwell quotes
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your m...
"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwis...
"So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
"Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its shar...
"For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt, the boredom, and the horribl...
"All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra...
"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
"Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die vio...
"A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind ...
"Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash m...
"England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a ...