Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Sooner
Thrive
False
Later
Usually
Battlefield
Belief
Battlefields
Reality
Bumps
Solid
More quotes by George Orwell
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
George Orwell
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.
George Orwell
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
George Orwell
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable
George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
George Orwell
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.
George Orwell
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George Orwell
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
George Orwell
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
George Orwell
No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.
George Orwell
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
George Orwell
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
George Orwell
We were once told that the aeroplane had abolished frontiers actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
George Orwell
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
George Orwell
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
George Orwell
