Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.  ~Edgar A. Shoaff

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.  ~George Orwell

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 a bit like playing make-believe.  ~Hartman Jule

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark.  You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.  ~Steuart Henderson Britt

Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation:  Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.  ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time.  It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."  ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50.  When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.  ~Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.  ~Louis KronenbergerPCR

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.  ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media’s Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.  ~Leonard BernsteinCUL

I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls.  As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.  ~Colin McEnroePCR

Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency – she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.  ~Jacques Seguelatitle of memoirs, 1979; QS

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

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 Political Quotations, 1982

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.  ~Author Unknown

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.  ~J.B. PriestleyCUL