"As I Please," Daily Herald/Tribune (27 February 1947) http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/asiplease1947-01.htm#Feb27 <br class="br">"As I Please" (1943–1947)

“No one I met at this time — doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients — failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.”

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George Orwell libro Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia (1938)

“Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.”

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George Orwell libro Down and Out in Paris and London

Origine: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 7

“One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.”

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George Orwell libro Down and Out in Paris and London

Origine: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 7; a remark by Boris

“He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.”

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George Orwell libro Fiorirà l'aspidistra

Origine: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 3

“He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.”

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George Orwell libro Down and Out in Paris and London

Origine: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 28, on Paddy the tramp

“Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it. … Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness… The only food at the Hotel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's.”

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George Orwell libro Down and Out in Paris and London

Origine: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 14

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”

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George Orwell libro Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language (1946)

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.”

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George Orwell libro Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language (1946)

“Ellis was one of those people who constantly nag others to echo their own opinions.”

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George Orwell libro Giorni in Birmania

Origine: Burmese Days (1934), Ch. II

“At about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. They made a good impression on me, which Gandhi himself at that time did not.”

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George Orwell

Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

“Of late years it has been the fashion to talk about Gandhi as though he were not only sympathetic to the Western Left-wing movement, but were integrally part of it. Anarchists and pacifists, in particular, have claimed him for their own, noticing only that he was opposed to centralism and State violence and ignoring the other-worldly, anti-humanist tendency of his doctrines.”

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George Orwell

Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

“An immense amount, enough to fill many books, has already been written on the subject [of the Barcelona fighting], and I do not suppose I should exaggerate if I said that nine-tenths of it is untruthful.”

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George Orwell libro Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia (1938)