I.B. George Quotes

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

What man is, only history tells.

There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

I don't believe in coincidences.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

No more will, no more soul, no more life!

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

All art is propaganda.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Live or die, sink or swim.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

I love to entertain an audience.