John Steinbeck Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Men, Years

• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

• I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Thinking, Nuts

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

• It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Intelligent

• Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Humor

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

• He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Paris, Poodles

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.10, Penguin

• Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Travel, Reading

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

• In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Morning, New York

• It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Cat, Different

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.201, Penguin

• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

• Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Looks, Hats

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

• I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Stranger, Shots

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.51, Penguin

• I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Night, Circles

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• A dog is a bond between strangers.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Stranger

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