Words of Wisdom: George Orwell

By Students' Academy

In academic circles, perhaps, no other novelist has gained as much popularity as George Orwell has. His most famous novels "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" brought all the glory that a writer desires. However, his best work is his essays, and it can be said that Orwell is also one of the most accomplished non-fiction writers.

He can easily transform the most insipid subject matters into something glamorous through his power of diction and sentence arrangement. The power of his diction distinguished him from several other contemporary writers.

Several of his sentences and lines from his works have become popular quotes today. In the present collection, you will get hundreds of such thought-provoking and intelligent lines. They are full of humor, intelligence, and wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Mar 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311931504

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Words of Wisdom: George Orwell

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Introduction

Although George Orwell is known worldwide for his famous novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his best work is his essays. He was one of the most skilled non-fiction writers.

Orwell had the power to transform even unglamorous subject matters into something highly enchanting and very interesting. It was the power of his words that enabled him to achieve the heights where he is established today.

Some of the sentences in his best works are so deft and witty that they have you laughing out loud. Many of his most famous sentences have become well known quotations today. Several great scholars and writers quote Orwell's lines in their speeches and works.

In this book you will find hundreds of such witty sentences that will not only amuse and entertain you, but also enlighten and compel to keep thinking for a long time.

Section One

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

"War is peace.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of