"I love them," said Dorothy. "They are so nice and selfish. Dogs are too good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human."
~
Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
~
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are.
~
Three Men in a Boat
by
Jerome K. Jerome
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
~
The Comedy of Errors
by
William Shakespeare
"You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor."
~
The Talisman
by
Sir Walter Scott
"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
by
Sir Walter Scott
"It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"
~
Pollyanna
by
Eleanor H. Porter
Even in common people, conceit has the virtue of making them cheerful; the man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to be a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times.
~
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
~
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
"Strange life a dog's," said Jolyon suddenly: "The only four-footer with rudiments of altruism and a sense of God!"
~
The Forsyte Saga
by
John Galsworthy