George Orwell: Citáty anglicky (strana 12)
George Orwell byl anglický spisovatel a novinář. Citáty anglicky.“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”
Zdroj: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 4
Zdroj: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontext: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
Zdroj: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 30
Zdroj: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontext: He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve. Sometimes, he said, when sleeping on the Embankment, it had consoled him to look up at Mars or Jupiter and think that there were probably Embankment sleepers there. He had a curious theory about this. Life on earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. He was a very exceptional man.
“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”
Varianta: Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
Zdroj: 1984
"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Zdroj: Why I Write
Kontext: Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.