Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Dogs

• Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Criticism, Strikes

• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Glasses, Broken

• Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

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