Animal Farm Quotes with Page Numbers
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – Page 94
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. – Page 4
The only good human being is a dead one. – Page 37
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. – Page 95
No animal shall kill any other animal without cause. – Page 30
One commandment read: ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed.’ The Seven Commandments had been reduced to a single maxim: ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ – Page 71
Four legs good, two legs better! – Page 93
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. – Page 68
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. – Page 4
Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. – Page 33
The machinery of the farm now brought money in instead of taking it out. – Page 45
Angry cries of ‘Get out, dogs! Go away, you bloody murderers!’ burst from the animals’ throat. – Page 97
Snowball was never spoken of again. – Page 25
No animal shall wear clothes. – Page 30
But is there really such a thing as matter? Does it really exist? – Page 10
Let the lies flow freely from their lips; the sheep were the only ones who knew the truth. – Page 85
In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. – Page 10
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. – Page 4
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. – Page 22
It was a noise that set one’s teeth on edge and bristles along one’s spine. – Page 2
Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else? – Page 13
The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words, but they accepted his explanation. – Page 20
The truest happiness, they declared, lay in working hard. – Page 14
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. – Page 4
They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere. – Page 45
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice. – Page 51
They were all killed in battle, and so ended the only rebellion the animals ever made against their masters. – Page 38
They seemed to make no impression. The steady advance of the Party had not affected the weather. – Page 1
With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed. – Page 2
Afterwards Squealer was sent round the farm to explain the new arrangement to the others. – Page 15
For everyone, he said, the honeymoon was over. The pigs were all dressed in plain black suits. He carried a whip in his trotter. – Page 104
A bird’s wing, comrades, is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. – Page 74
Forward, comrades! he cried. Forward in the name of the rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right. – Page 49
No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. – Page 30
No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. – Page 95
All the animals took up the cry of ‘Get out, Boxer, get out!’ – Page 88
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – Page 94
He wagged his tail till it nearly broke off, and then he told them what had happened to Boxer. – Page 93
If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it. – Page 54
I must work harder was Napoleon’s motto. – Page 43
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. – Page 4
The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words, but they accepted his explanation. – Page 20
It was a noise that set one’s teeth on edge and bristles along one’s spine. – Page 2
In those days they had been slaves and now… they were slaves still, but their slavery was now doubly sweetened by the fact that they were slaves to themselves. – Page 65
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word – Man. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. All animals are equal. – Page 4
These three had elaborated old Major’s teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism. – Page 19
She rarely left the farmhouse, and the one level where she kept herself more or less to herself. – Page 7
The pigs had already taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book. – Page 8
Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. – Page 35
The years of plenty had given the animals confidence. – Page 41