151 ordspråk av George Orwell
George Orwell
George Orwell föddes den June 25th 1903 och dog den 21 January 1950 - English writer
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 Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness |
| Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise |
| Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. |
| Myths which are believed in tend to become true. |
| Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
| No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. |
| No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. |
| Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards |
| Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria |
| Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia |
| On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time |
| On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time |
| One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. |
| One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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