Animal Farm - Quotes Flashcards
Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed
Benjamin
“Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilizes it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin”
Old Major
A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance
Boxer
He was still a majestic looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance
Old Major
“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
Snowball
He was a spy and a tale bearer, but he was also a clever talker
Moses
He could turn black into white
Squealer
“Day and night we are watching over your welfare.”
Squealer
He was the admiration of everybody
Boxer
they did not work, but directed and supervised the others
the pigs
they continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity simply took advantage of it
wild animals
These two disliked each other so much that is was difficult for them to come to any agreement, even in defense of their own interests
Snowball and Napoleon
Most of this time [he] had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon
Farmer Jones
“Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?”
Napoleon
Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but [he] would never listen to her
Boxer
[He] ended his speech with his usual cry of “Long live Animal Farm!”
Napoleon
[He] would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon
Boxer
“I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm.”
Boxer
He sprang forward with a cry of “Death to Humanity” and sunk his teeth into Jones’ leg
Napoleon
He confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool
sheep
[He] seemed to understand, but would say nothing
Benjamin
He was walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him
Napoleon
He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razor blade tied to their spurs
Frederick
[He] would talk, with the tears rolling down his cheeks, of Napoleon’s wisdom the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms
Squealer
“Fools! Fools! Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?”
Benjamin
[He] had commanded the once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration
Napoleon
It now appeared that [he] had not, as the animals previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones’ side
Snowball
in the middle of the summer [he] suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years
Moses
“Up there, comrades,” he would say solemnly; pointing to the sky with his large beak - “up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see - there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain.”
Moses
“Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there.”
Clover
“Four legs good! Two legs better!”
Sheep
“Gentlemen, here is my toast: to the prosperity of the Manor Farm!”
Napoleon
There were very many of them, and their appetites were always good
the pigs and dogs
Majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side
Napoleon/ the pigs
He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on the Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county
Pilkington
