With no ads, who would pay for the media? The good fairy? – Samuel Thurm
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. – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964
And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. – Rod Serling, quoted in Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Plays by Alan B. Howe
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Politic
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
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. – Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Med
As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. – George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twe
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it. – Will Rogers
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. – George Orwell
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. – Norman Douglas, South Wind
Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. – Hartman Jule
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. – Bill Cosby
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. – J.B. Priestley
So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. – Jason Love
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. – Edgar A. Shoaff
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. – Samuel Johnson
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. – Leonard Bernstein
Advertising is only another form of statistics. – Hartman Jule
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. – Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. – B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of
