poster quotes

If Kitchener is not a great man, he is, at least, a great poster.

- Margot Asquith
Quoted in P Magnus Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist. Lady Asquith uses the phrase in her Memories (1933), but attributes it to her daughter Elizabeth.

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move., the caption beneath it ran.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU1949  Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.1, ch.1.

It is difficult to live up to one's poster† When I pass my name in large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

- Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm Tree
Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

Rather the poster on the student's wall than the original unseen on a shelf in a big gallery storeroom.

-Jack Vettriano
  In TheTimes,13 Mar.