Famous quotes by Authors

"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing"

George Orwell, Author

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be"

George Orwell, Author

"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings"

George Orwell, Author

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power"

George Orwell, Author

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

George Orwell, Author

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment"

George Orwell, Author

"He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him"

George Orwell, Author

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows"

George Orwell, Author

"Four legs good, two legs bad"

George Orwell, Author

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility"

George Orwell, Author

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper"

George Orwell, Author

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

George Orwell, Author

"Big Brother is watching you!"

George Orwell, Author

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents"

George Orwell, Author

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

George Orwell, Author

"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Human history, in essence, is the history of ideas"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder"

H.G. Wells, Author

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law"

H.G. Wells, Author

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