Hounds Quotes

• All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Wall, Home

  Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

  Henry Fielding

  Hunting, Wind, Cry

  Don Quixote in England act 2, sc. 5 (1733).

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• Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

  Thomas More

  Uprising

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• If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Dog, Teeth, Sticks

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• A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Faces, Looks

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.923, Bantam

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• We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

  Norman Jewison

  Animal, Rabbits, Totems

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• I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

  Neil Young

  Years, Lasts, Feels

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• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

  Irene Dunne

  Years, Shopping, Used

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• I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Data, Information, Internet

  "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

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• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Obvious Things, World

  Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

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• It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, People, Genius

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
  The mother of months in meadow or plain
  Fills the shadows and windy places
  With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Spring, Rain

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dog, Sweet, Hunting

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

  Joan Baez

  Children, Sleep, Next Day

  Joan Baez (2012). “And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Mad, Degrees

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Works ...”, p.130

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• Some people call me a publicity hound.

  Joe Arpaio

  People, Publicity, Call Me

  "To-Do List: Curiosity Lands on Mars; Bolt Wins" by Nadine Zylberberg, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Pain, Book

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.865, Ageless Reads

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• He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Laughter, Laughing, Laugh Often

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.101, Wordsworth Editions

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• The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Incidents, Grotesque, Deserve

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.874, Ageless Reads

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• A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.127, Lulu.com

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• You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, May, Conductor

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• If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Two

  "Malcolm X: Make It Plain". "The American Experience", PBS, season 6, episode 6, January 26, 1994.

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• We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Past, Faces, Slave

  Timothy B. Tyson (2004). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, Crown Pub

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• Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
  and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror
  and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing
  and the night cold and the night long and the river
  to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning
  and blackness ahead

  Robert Hayden

  Running, Fall, Night

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.

  Kate Hoey

  Hunting, Views, Ideas

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