"You would not make the act of..." - Quote by George Orwell

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

“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. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

“No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.”

“Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?”

“To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.”

“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”

“Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.”

“Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.”