George Orwell Quotes

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Funny is when you're serious.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.