Big Brother may refer to:
- Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a character from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Authoritarian personality, any omnipresent figure representing oppressive control
- Big Brother Awards, a satirical award for acts against personal privacy
- Big Brother Watch, a UK pressure group
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Famous quotes containing the words big brother, big and/or brother:
“To my big brother George—the richest man in town.”
—Frances Goodrich (1891–1984)
“The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked;
no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they
sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the
reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the
remedy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)