Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. – George Orwell
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. – George Orwell
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell
Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. – Baroness Emmuska Orczy