George Orwell Tests Quotations

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.