George Orwell, Keep The Aspidistra Flying Quotes

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.

For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.