Connie Willis Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-

  Connie Willis

  Dog, War, Lying

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.16, Bantam

• One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Morning, Past

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Bantam

• 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

  Dog, Cat, Space

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

• To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Sacrifice, Cost

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