Advertisement Quotes

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. (David Ogilvy)
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. View quote
J. B. Priestley
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are. View quote
Isabella Rossellini
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests. View quote
Simone Weil
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. View quote
John Ruskin
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. (David Ogilvy)
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. View quote
George Orwell
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature." View quote
Lewis M. Branscomb
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. View quote
David Perlmutter
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story. View quote
Blake Mycoskie
I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. (Bridget Hall)
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. View quote
James Cash Penney
A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization. View quote
James Cash Penney
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards. View quote
Robin Day
I sold electric light bulbs to janitors, candy to drug stores, and Stoddard's Lectures from door to door. I had decided I was a total failure, when I saw an advertisement which indicated that somebody wanted an expert accountant. Not knowing anything about its I applied for the job and got it. I am convinced that what are commonly known as "the breaks," good or bad, have fully as much to do with one's success or failure as ability. The break I got in this instance lay in the fact that my employer knew even less about the duties of an expert accountant than I did. View quote
Edgar Rice Burroughs