Animal Farm Quotes

• ‘all the evil ...

  springs from the tyranny of human beings’
• ‘All animals are equal.’
• ‘Only get rid of Man, and the produce of

  our labour would be our own.’
• ‘The life of an animal is misery and

  slavery’
• ‘All animals are equal.’
• ‘Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive’
• ‘Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar … with a reputation for getting his own way.’
• ‘Their most faithful disciples were the two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover.’
• ‘All the animals

  capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames.’
• ‘an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after’
• ‘the entire work of the farm seemed to rest upon his mighty shoulders’
• ‘it was truly their own food’
• ‘whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it’
• ‘Four legs good, two legs bad.’ 
• ‘I have no wish to take life, not even human life’
• ‘The only good human being is a dead one.’
• ‘I will work harder’
• ‘Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?’ 
• ‘All that year the animals worked like slaves.’
• ‘it was a slow, laborious process’ 
• ‘Napoleon is always right’
• ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets’
• ‘All animals are equal’
• ‘All animals are equal but some are more equal than others’
• ‘ The enemy both internal and external has been defeated’ 
• ‘There would be no more debates’
• ‘If Comrade Napolean says it, it must be right’ 
• ‘Day and night we are watching over your welfare’ 
• ‘The scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forwards to on that night when Old Major first stirred them to rebellion’
• ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets’ ….. ‘Clover had not remembered that the fourth commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall it must have done so’ 
• ‘I could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it’
• ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’
• ‘An old book of Julia Caesar’s campaign’
• ‘Snowball at the head of them, rushed forward’
• ‘Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive’ 
• ‘They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napolean’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown since the expulsion of Jones’ 
• ‘Reputation for getting his own way’ 
• ‘Until today no animal had killed another animal. Not even a rat had been killed’
• ‘Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs which smashed to pieces on the floor’ 
• ‘They protested that to take their eggs away now was murder’