Quotes from book
Shooting an Elephant

Name: Shooting an Elephant
Author: George Orwell

George Orwell

"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by English writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.

“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”

George Orwell book Shooting an Elephant

Source: Shooting an Elephant

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

George Orwell book Shooting an Elephant

Source: Shooting an Elephant

Similar authors

George Orwell 473

English author and journalist 1903–1950

Terry Pratchett 796

English author

Hunter S. Thompson 268

American journalist and author

Mario Benedetti 4

Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet

Ernest Hemingway 501

American author and journalist

P.G. Wodehouse 302

English author

Christian Morgenstern 21

German author

Jack London 77

American author, journalist, and social activist

Helen Rowland 13

American journalist

H.L. Mencken 281

American journalist and writer