"He would say that God had given..." - Quote by George Orwell
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
More by George Orwell
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”
“No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.”
“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
More on Desire
“Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.”
“Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.”
“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”