• Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog

George Orwell Quotes

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. - George Orwell (Politics and the English Language Quotes)

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Source:Politics and the English Language (December 11, 1945); The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (1968), Volume IV, Page 137
Find more on
1

Themes

LanguageThought

Related Quotes

  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that...
  • Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
  • Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and...

Related Authors

Charles DickensErnest HemingwayOscar WildeVirginia WoolfAlbert CamusFyodor DostoyevskyWilliam FaulknerJules Verne
George Orwell Quotes
  • Name: George Orwell
  • Profession: Novelist, Writer
  • Born: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
  • More on:

Top Authors

  • William Shakespeare
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Agatha Christie
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • George Eliot
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Stephen King
  • About Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact
© 2013-2026 MagicalQuote
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog