Author: George Orwell

Cites

William Shakespeare (2)
- IN: Burmese Days (1934) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: This desert inaccessible Under the shade of melancholy boughs'
  FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
NULL (1)
- IN: Coming Up for Air (1939) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: He's dead, but he won't lie down.
  FROM: Popular Song, (1932), Song, NULL

Cited by

Scott Bergstrom (1)
- IN: The Cruelty (2017) Thriller, Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually look upwards, and few faces are at their best when see from below.
  FROM: Such, Such Were The Joys, (1952), Essay, UK
Alex Campbell (1)
- IN: Land (2014) Dystopian Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
  FROM: Looking Back on the Spanish War, (1943), Essay, UK
S. A. Bodeen (1)
- IN: The Raft (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: To survive is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
C. K. Kelly Martin (1)
- IN: Yesterday (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.
  FROM: 1984, (1949), Novel, UK
Richard Doetsch (1)
- IN: The Thieves of Darkness (2010) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: Myths which are believed in tend to become true
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
De La Motte, Anders (1)
- IN: Bubble (2012) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: He who owns the past controls the future
  FROM: 1984, (1949), Novel, UK
Anne Fortier (1)
- IN: The Lost Sisterhood (2014) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: He who controls the present, controls the past.
  FROM: 1984, (1949), Novel, UK
Jo Walton (1)
- IN: Farthing (2006) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: All the brass instruments andbig drums in the world cannot turn "God Save the King" into a good tune, but on the very rare occasions when it is sung in full it does spring to life in the two lines: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks! And, in fact, I had always imagined that this second verse is habitually left our because of a vague suspicion on the part of the Tories that these lines refer to themselves.
  FROM: As I Please, (1947), Article, UK
Lionel Shriver (1)
- IN: The New Republic (2012) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  FROM: Politics and the English Language, (1946), Essay, UK
Ali Smith (1)
- IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
  FROM: In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950, (1968), Book, UK
Don and Pezzullo, Ralph Mann (1)
- IN: Hunt the Wolf (2012) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
  FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], UK
Michael Robotham (2)
- IN: The Wreckage (2011) Thriller, Suspense, Australian
  EPIGRAPH: During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
Brad Thor (1)
- IN: The Apostle (2009) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
  FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], UK
Tony Parsons (1)
- IN: The Murder Bag (2014) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: Crimes as serious as murder should have strong emotions behind them.
  FROM: The Decline of the English Murder, (1946), Essay, UK
Brad Listi (1)
- IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
  FROM: Rudyard Kipling, (1942), Essay, UK
Louise Levene (1)
- IN: The Following Girls (2014) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: The Hate had started.
  FROM: Nineteen Eighty-Four, (1949), Novel, UK
Jo Nesbo (1)
- IN: The Wreckage (None) NULL, British
  EPIGRAPH: During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
Randy Wayne White (1)
- IN: Everglades (2004) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.
  FROM: NULL, (1938), NULL, UK
Slavenka Drakulić (1)
- IN: A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism (2011) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
  FROM: 1984, (1949), Novel, UK
Michael Crichton (1)
- IN: State of Fear (2004) Techno-thriller, American
  EPIGRAPH: Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
Jim Tan (1)
- IN: Payoh (2017) Fiction, Singaporean
  EPIGRAPH: The more you are in the right the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.
  FROM: Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Polemic No. 7, (1947), NULL, UK
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (1)
- IN: Illuminae (2015) Fiction, Australian
  EPIGRAPH: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
  FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
Philip Roth (1)
- IN: Our Gang (1971) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: ...one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end... Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  FROM: "Politics and the English Language", (1946), Book, UK