# Quote — George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

> There exists in England a curious cult of Northernness, sort of Northern snobbishness. A Yorkshireman in the South will always take care to let you know that he regards you as an inferior. If you ask him why, he will explain that it is only in the North that life is "real" life, that the industrial work done in the North is the only "real" work, that the North is inhabited by "real" people, the South merely by rentiers and their parasites.

- 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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> The modern English literary world, at any rate the high-brow section of it, is a sort of poisonous jungle where only weeds can flourish.

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> Tea, the Englishman's opium.

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