"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
― George Orwell
Topic(s): Age
― George Orwell
More From George Orwell
- "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
- "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
- "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
More In Age
- "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."― Amos Bronson Alcott
- "Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to."― Bill Vaughan
- "Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."― Reinhold Niebuhr