Quote

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

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
Would
Destroyed
Six
Certainly
Among
Gulliver
Books
Travels
Others
Preserved
Book
List
Make
Lists

More quotes by George Orwell

Image
To die hating them, that was freedom.
George Orwell
Image
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
George Orwell
Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.
George Orwell
Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.
George Orwell
Image
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
George Orwell
Image
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
George Orwell
Image
Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
George Orwell
Image
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
Image
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
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
Image
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Image
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
George Orwell
Image
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
George Orwell
Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
George Orwell
Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word Art, and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K. kicking little girls in the head is O.K. even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.
George Orwell
Image
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
George Orwell
Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
Image
It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
George Orwell
Image
Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.
George Orwell
Image
The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb
George Orwell