# Quote — George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

> Perhaps this class-breaking business isn't so simple as it looked! On the contrary, it is a wild ride into the darkness, and it may be that at the end of it the smile will be on the face of the tiger. With loving though slightly patronizing smiles we set out to greet our proletarian brothers, and behold! our proletarian brothers — in so far as we understand them — are not asking for our greetings, they are asking us to commit suicide. When the bourgeois sees it in that form he takes to flight.

- Author: [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md)
- Book: [The Road to Wigan Pier](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier.md)
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> We spend our lives in abusing England but grow very angry when we hear a foreigner saying exactly the same things.

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> Tea, the Englishman's opium.

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