Selected Essays Quotes

“As for Spring, not even the narrow and gloomy streets round the Bank of England are quite able to exclude it. It comes seeping in everywhere, like one of those new poison gasses which pass through all filters.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays

“However little we may like it, toughness is the price of survival.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays

“You can only create if you can care.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays

“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays

“I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so 'enlightened' that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays

“Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
― George Orwell, Selected Essays