Advertisements Quote by Mitch Hedberg

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

— Freya Stark

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

— Mark McKinnon

I don't see the point in false advertising.

— Taissa Farmiga

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

“Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited.”

— Al Ries

Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids…

— Michael Schudson

“Advertising is legitimised lying.”

— H.G. Wells

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

— David Ogilvy

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the…

— P. T. Barnum

Advertising is legalized lying.

— H. G. Wells

“All the fakeness just rolls right off them, maybe because the nonstop sales job of American life has instilled in them exceptionally high thresholds…

— Ben Fountain

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't…

— Pauline Kael