George Orwell Quotes — People

Painterly small pearl resting on an ornate silver hand mirror against pale pink. — Original artwork

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

A locked pink diary and curved black periscope sit with a rose beneath a glass cloche. — Original artwork

If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.

George Orwell

An uneven metal balance holds several weights on one pan and a single weight on the other above a granite base. — Original artwork

Inequality was the price of civilization.

George Orwell

A thin man in overalls hunches over a notebook at a table in a shabby flat, hidden from a glowing telescreen, a grim city and a giant poster outside. — Original artwork

It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

George Orwell

A brass ear trumpet faces a dandelion seed head and drifting seeds against deep teal. — Original artwork

You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

George Orwell

A lone man sits at a chessboard with a glass of gin in a smoky café under a giant poster of a single watching eye and a telescreen of marching ranks. — Original artwork

He loved Big Brother.

George Orwell

A man writes in a diary under a bare bulb beneath a huge painted eye, the white pyramid of a ministry rising over ruins outside the window. — Original artwork

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

George Orwell

Farm animals crowd in the snow outside a lit farmhouse window, watching pigs and men feast together at a long table inside. — Original artwork

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again.

George Orwell