Quotes by Orwell, George

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap >>

The existence of good bad literature --the fact that one can be amused >>

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not >>

Quotations about Sensitivity

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it wou >>

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us >>

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be p >>

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

Orwell, George