Jerome K. Jerome Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

• They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.68, Jerome K. Jerome

• He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Friendship, Wise, Dog

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.69, Jerome K. Jerome

• Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Four

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.221, Diderot Publishing

• There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Life Is, Interest

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.75, Jerome K. Jerome

• I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.38, Jerome K. Jerome

• We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings that we are, we will not be put off with a part. Give us only everything, and we will be content. And, after all, Cinderella, you have had your day. Some little dogs never get theirs. You must not be greedy. You have KNOWN happiness. The palace was Paradise for those few months, and the Prince's arms were about you, Cinderella, the Prince's kisses on your lips; the gods themselves cannot take THAT from you.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Heart, Kissing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.30, The Floating Press

• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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