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Dog Quotes — 32 Dog Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

The Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Walter Scott · The source reads: “Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.” · The Talisman (1825), ch. 24

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar (1599), IV, iii

Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

William Shakespeare · Hamlet (1600–1601), V, i

You’ve stolen my dog’s affection!

Winston Churchill · S, 1950

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Attributed to Alphonse de Lamartine · Quoted by Count d'Orsay, letter to John Forster (1850)

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

George Graham Vest · The source reads: “The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.… When all other friends desert, he remains.” · Speech in the Senate (1884), Eulogy on the Dog

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

W. G. Sebald · Interview with Joseph Cuomo, Queens College (March 13, 2001), on his way of writing

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.

Albert Einstein · On his dog Chico.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

Gertrude Stein · The Geographical History of America (1936)

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so.

Isaac Watts · Divine Songs (1715), no. 16, Against Quarreling and Fighting

A dog hath a day.

John Heywood · Proverbs, I, 11

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 343

He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.

Longus · Daphnis and Chloe, 15

Dogs aren't difficult to understand. One has to put oneself in their position.

J. R. Ackerley · My Dog Tulip (1956)

It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.

Phaedrus · Fables, I, 25

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

The Bible · Proverbs 12:10

I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Alexander Pope · Written for the collar of a dog

Dog Quotes

The Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

You’ve stolen my dog’s affection!

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

The smart dog obeys, but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

"The dog did nothing in the nighttime." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

A dog starv’d at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.