Quotes by Orwell, George

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, an >>

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinar >>

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that e >>

Quotations about Language

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of crit >>

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which dr >>

Language is the dress of thought. >>

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

Orwell, George