An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Quote by George Orwell

Topics: Autobiography Quotes, Life Quotes

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

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

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will...

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give...

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give...

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the...

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the...

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the...

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,...

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,...

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going...

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going...

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some...

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some...

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference...

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference...

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human...

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human...

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

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