Quote bank for Animal Farm by George Orwell created for GCSE use and suitable for any exam board. Includes quotes colour coded by key character and theme. Does not included analysis of quotes however is still useful to help with memorising them for the exam. There is a large variety of quotes on th...
Snowball:
“A more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive”
“In a moment Snowball’s eloquence had them carried away”
“full of plans for innovations and improvements”
Snowball and Napoleon “were never in agreement”
“In charge of the defensive operations”
“gave his orders quickly”
“Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball”
“All these rumours had probably originated from Snowball and his agents”
Squealer:
“The others said of Squealer that he could turn black to white”
“his little eyes darted suspicious glances from side to side”
“Squealer spoke so persuasively…that they accepted his explanation without further
questions”
“Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?”
“Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start”
“Do you not remember?”
“He cast a very ugly look at Boxer with his little twinkling eyes”
“Skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh”
“Squealer was soon able to convince them that their memories had been at fault”
Old Major:
“A majestic looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance”
“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”
“All animals are equal”
“Man is the only real enemy we have”
“remember also that in fighting against man, we must not come to resemble him”
“Leu us face it:our lives are miserable, laborious and short”
Napoleon:
“Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball”
“Do you want Jones to come back”
“Never mind the milk,comrades! Napoleon cried, placing himself in front of the buckets”
“It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and
every stroke of good fortune”
“rarely appeared in public” and other animals “followed at a respectful distance”
“The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally”
“Like all of Napoleon’s speeches, it was short and to the point”
“Napoleon took them away from their mothers”
Boxer:
Even
“he was not of first rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of
character and tremendous powers of work”
, “I will work harder”
“Napoleon is always right”
“Even Boxer was vaguely troubled” by Snowball’s departure
“What victory” - after the Battle of the Windmill
“Days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest upon his mighty shoulders”
“Strength seemed equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together”
Clover:
“A stout motherly mare approaching middle life”
“But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled”
“She would remain faithful”
“Muriel, she said. Read me the Fourth Commandment. Does it not say something about
never sleeping in a bed?”
“Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets”
Mollie:
“Foolish, pretty white mare”
“Came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar”
“She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane”
“The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie”
“Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?”
Muriel:
“Muriel read the commandment for her”
Benjamin:
“Without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer”
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey”
“Fools!Fools!...Do you not see what is written on the side of that van”
“Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters”
“with an air almost of amusement”
“It was the first time that they had ever seen Benjamin excited”
Moses:
“a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker”
“He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain”
Other animals:
“The sheep had taken to bleating ‘four legs good,two legs bad’ both in and out of season,
and they often interrupted the Meeting with this”
“Though not yet full grown they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves”
“The hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes”
Cat was “seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of
her reach”
“they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs”
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