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
enemy felt untruth
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
brother wall moving
On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
fighting frivolous
The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
scarcity hardship privilege
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.
fate series jokes
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
pedants poet joyce
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
literature ordinary vegetarian
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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.
writing skins pages
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.
window-panes world cold
Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
defeat series
Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.
father son persistence
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
death moments certain
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
revolutionary fascists militia
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.