George Orwell Quotes About Imitation

Quotes about: Imitation

• If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

  George Orwell

  People, Language, Tradition

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

  George Orwell

  Clarity, Trouble, Imitation

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Thinking, Political

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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