Animal Farm Quotes

“This work was strictly voluntary….

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half”

“A too rigid..

“A too rigid equality in rations”

“When a pig and..

“When a pig and any other animal met on the path, the other animal must stand aside”

“Napoleon had never…

“Napoleon in reality had never been opposed to the windmill”

“Are…”

“Are rats comrades?”

“Whatever goes upon…

“What ever goes upon two legs is an enemy, whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend”

“Snowball and…

“Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in debates”

“tore…

“Tore their throats out”

“These were his very last words…

“These were his very last words comrades…maxims which every animal would do well to adopt at his own”

“Bravery is..

“Bravery is not enough, Loyalty and obedience are more important”

“The skull..

“The skull had already been buried”

“Four legs..

“Four legs good, two legs bad”

“better”

“Four legs good, two legs better”

“The creatures looked from..

“The creatures looked from pig to man and man to pig and pig to man again. But it was already impossible to tell which was which.”

“reducing the principles..

“Reducing the principles of animalism to seven commandments”

“As for the pigs..

“As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly”

“Surely no…

surely no one wants Jones to come back?”

“They always found..

“They always found themselves in agreement with the one speaking at the moment”

“No more debates”

“No more debates”

“Napoleon is always right”

“Napoleon is always right”

Napoleon had

a reputation for getting his own way

Whenever anything

went wrong, it became usual to attribute to snowball

could no longer

remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the rebellion

They were

always cold and usually hungry

Nothing could have

been achieved without boxer

Same way

as the other dogs had used to do to Mr Jones

Comrade,

this was to be supressed

The short animals

lives fled by…but in fact no animal had ever actually retired”

their lives now

reasoned were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?”

Napoleon approved of the poem and

caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the seven commandments. It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon”

The relations between Napoleon

and Pilkington, though they were only conducted through Whymper, were now almost friendly.”

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 Napoleon’s feet”         

Beasts of England had 

been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it”

Whenever anything

went wrong, it became usual to attribute it to Snowball