Quote by George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custar

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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Men dont care whats on TV. They only care what else is on TV. – Jerry Seinfeld

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Weve got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. Its bizarre, and theyre writing some very funny stuff. – Matt Groening

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Its funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. – Josh Lucas

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Life is hard. After all, it kills you. – Katharine Hepburn

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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. – James Herriot

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I dont want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years. – Lynn Redgrave

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