Famous advertising quotations

   Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.
 ~ by Samuel Johnson

   It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
 ~ by R. Serling

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
 ~ by John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

   I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.
 ~ by Colin McEnroe

   Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
 ~ by Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982

   It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
 ~ by Nicholas Johnson

   Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select The Age of Advertising for the purpose.
 ~ by Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915

   It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
 ~ by B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century A

   You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
 ~ by Norman Douglas, South Wind

   Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
 ~ by Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964

   The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
 ~ by Leonard Bernstein

   Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
 ~ by Will Rogers

   Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
 ~ by Edgar A. Shoaff

   Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
 ~ by Jacques Seguela

   History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
 ~ by Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988

   The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
 ~ by Louis Kronenberger

   What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
 ~ by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964

   Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
 ~ by David Ogilvy

   As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
 ~ by George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century Ameri

   When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
 ~ by Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985

   In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.
 ~ by Erma Bombeck

   Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
 ~ by Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of

   Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
 ~ by George Orwell

   Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
 ~ by J.B. Priestley



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