"I believe that a dog brings out the very best there is in man or woman. Dogs make me feel how shabby most of our loyalties are, how limited our patience, how destructible our love of one another. You couldn't revert to the savage state so easily if you had a dog on a desert island. For a dog is a gentleman, with kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor—kindliness and dignity being, I think, the two qualities which make a gent a gent or not."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
, quoted in "If I Were Marooned on a Desert Island" by Faith Service, Picturegoer (March 27, 1937)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dogs
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Dogs
86 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Dogs →
Related Quotes
"Reheline koer ai katto päi silmi. (Mynämäki, Varsinais-Suomi) (KNM)"
"Non stuzzicare il can che dorme."
"His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest."
"He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup."
"Mother of dead dogs."
"DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. T…"
"Il fait mal Ă©veiller le chien qui dort."
"A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a…"
"On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; No harp like my own coul…"
"The dog loves the one who beats it."