Keyword: Advertising

Advertising: The rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist

Advertising: The rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist

Advertising: That which makes you think you’ve longed all your life for something you never even heard of.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I’ve written books on advertising… check books.

(1947 – ) English business magnate & media personality

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.


Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

(1869 – 1944) Canadian economist & humorist

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.

(1946 – ) American comedian, actor & voice actor

If an item is advertised as "under $50," you can bet it's not $19.95.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

[Poker] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter