George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
faces fit mask
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
necklaces generations corpses
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
political-language decay chaos
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
learning unhappy looks
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
love-and-friendship tragedy privacy
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
autobiography trusted disgraceful
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
honesty lying fall
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
numbers people important
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.
pigs needs being-there
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.
cures sane knows
Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.
wings two enemy
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
pedants poet joyce
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
time children humorous
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
revolutionary anarchist should
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.