George Orwell Quotes

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.

I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

[Ryan Gosling] just got by because he's a cute kid? Yeah. I was an ugly kid; "The Mickey Mouse Club" wasn't for me.

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

Maybe I am a bit mad.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”