Quote

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

George Orwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
Autobiographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Eric Blair
P. S. Burton
Eric Arthur Blair
John Freeman
Stick
Marketing
Advertising
Sticks
Selling
Rattling
Inside
Adverts
Wisdom
Bucket
Buckets

More quotes by George Orwell

Image
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
George Orwell
Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.
George Orwell
Image
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
George Orwell
Image
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
George Orwell
Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.
George Orwell
Image
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
George Orwell
Image
There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.
George Orwell
Image
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
George Orwell
Image
Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!
George Orwell
Image
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
George Orwell
Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
George Orwell
Image
A minority of one... the definition of insanity.
George Orwell
Image
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
George Orwell
Image
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.
George Orwell
Image
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell
Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
Image
We were once told that the aeroplane had abolished frontiers actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
George Orwell
Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.
George Orwell
Image
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
George Orwell
Image
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
George Orwell