Dog Quotes - Page 33

• Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Doors, Old Dog, Knows

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2009). “This Book Is Not Good For You”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

  Andrew Vachss

  Thinking, Should Have, America

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• Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit," he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor. Ivy scowled in frustration. "I've been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Book, Frustration, Ivy

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• Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺ ʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa. ʺRight.ʺ .... ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink. ʺChristian,ʺ said Christian. .... Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. ʺBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.ʺ It went without saying what he meant by that. ʺOh. And Kreskin too.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Eye, Glasses

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• If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Voice, People

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• Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Beautiful, Cat

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• (On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

  Joyce Meyer

  Authority, Position, Ifs

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• It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

  Stephen King

  Cat, Men, Pet

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• You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

  Markus Zusak

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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• But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning snarl and bristling mane were anything but playful. That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time. He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.

  Jack London

  Heart, White, Liberty

  Jack London (2016). “White Fang”, p.115, My Ebook Publishing House

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• I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.

  Markus Zusak

  Fall, Breathing, Smell

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Children, Men

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• What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.

  Sarah MacLean

  Thinking, Looks, Painting

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• People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Names, People

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.264, The Floating Press

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• God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

  Anne Rice

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2604, Ballantine Books

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• To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Joy, Would Be, Tails

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

  Connie Willis

  Cat, Space, Work Out

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.479, Bantam

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• Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.

  Terry Pratchett

  Couple, Hands, Cities

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• Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

  Eileen Wilks

  Cat, Numbers, Needs

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.64, Penguin

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• Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

  John Green

  People, Realizing, Persons

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• Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Coward, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.150, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mankind, My Dog

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• Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sadness, Said Life, Envy

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• Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Keys, Bars, Coins

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.353, Macmillan

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• Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Taken, Animal

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.8, Vintage

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