Animal Farm Quotes

  • [The laws of Animal Farm are being read]

    Snowball: No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall sleep in a bed. Four legs good, two legs bad.

    [The chickens are very annoyed at this rule]

    Squealer: Wings count as legs.

    [The chickens realize that Squealer is right]

    Group of sheep: Four legs good, two legs bad. Four legs good, two legs bad.

    Snowball: [continuing the reading of the laws] No animal shall kill another animal. All animals are equal.

  • Napoleon: Loyal followers, on farms owned and operated by pigs, there is order and discipline. Own lower animals do more work and eat less than other on farms.

    [gives medals]

    Napoleon: With this, we encourage you to make your lower animals work even harder and eat even less! To a greater Animal Farm! For peace and plenty under pig rule!

    [Benjamin, outside imagines Napoleon's face assimilating that of Jones; he suddenly sees through the resemblance]

    Napoleon: To the day when pigs own and operate farms EVERYWHERE!

    [applause]

  • Narration Spoken by: And that night the pigs drank to Boxer's memory, in the whisky they had bought with Boxer's life.

  • Narration Spoken by: [last words] To the animals, it now seemed that their world, which may or may not some day become a happy place to live in, was worse than ever for ordinary creatures, and another moment had come when they must do something about it...