Quote

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

George Orwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
Autobiographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Eric Blair
P. S. Burton
Eric Arthur Blair
John Freeman
Love
Last
Money
Care
Women
Littles
Little
Matters
Matter
Bits
Men
Lasts

More quotes by George Orwell

Image
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
George Orwell
Image
A sahib has got to act like a sahib he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
George Orwell
Image
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
George Orwell
Image
You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.
George Orwell
Image
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
George Orwell
Image
Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
George Orwell
Image
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
George Orwell
Image
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
George Orwell
Image
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades
George Orwell
Image
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell
Image
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.
George Orwell
Image
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
George Orwell
Image
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
Image
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist
George Orwell
Image
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
George Orwell
Image
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
George Orwell
Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Image
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
George Orwell
Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.
George Orwell