## Quotes About Dogs (Chronological Order) - [**Alexander Pope** (1688-1744)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Pope-English-author): English poet and satirist - "Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." *(Letter to Henry Cromwell, October 19, 1709)* - [**Elizabeth Barrett Browning** (1806-1861)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Barrett-Browning): English poet of the Victorian era - "But of thee it shall be said, / This dog watched beside a bed / Day and night unweary." *(“To Flush, My Dog,” Poems, 1844)* - [**Charles Darwin** (1809-1882)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin): English naturalist, founder of evolutionary theory - "Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail as he meets..." *(The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872, Introduction)* - [**George Graham Vest** (1830-1904)](https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/v000091): American lawyer and U.S. Senator from Missouri - "The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog." *(“Eulogy of the Dog” closing argument, Old Drum trial, Warrensburg, Missouri, September 23, 1870; Vest spoke extemporaneously and anthologized texts vary slightly)* - [**Emily Dickinson** (1830-1886)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson): American poet - "You ask of my Companions Hills - Sir - and the Sundown - and a Dog - large as myself, that my Father bought me - They are better than Beings - because they know - but do not tell." *(Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, April 25, 1862, on her Newfoundland, Carlo)* - [**Mark Twain** (1835-1910)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain): American humorist and novelist - "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." *(Letter to William Dean Howells, April 2, 1899)* - [**Ambrose Bierce** (1842-1914)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ambrose-Bierce): American journalist and satirist - "Dog, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship." *(The Devil's Dictionary, 1911)* - [**Rudyard Kipling** (1865-1936)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudyard-Kipling): English author and poet, Nobel laureate - "Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware / Of giving your heart to a dog to tear." *(“The Power of the Dog,” Actions and Reactions, 1909)* - [**E. B. White** (1899-1985)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-B-White): American essayist and author of Charlotte's Web - "If by 'harboring' you mean getting up two or three times every night to pull Minnie's blanket up over her, I am harboring a dog all right." *(Letter to the ASPCA, April 12, 1951, answering a charge of harboring an unlicensed dachshund)* - [**John Steinbeck** (1902-1968)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Steinbeck): American novelist and Nobel laureate - "A dog, particularly an exotic like Charley, is a bond between strangers." *(Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962)* - [**Konrad Lorenz** (1903-1989)](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1973/lorenz/biographical/): Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate - "The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being." *(Man Meets Dog, 1954, “Affection's Claim”)* - [**Charles M. Schulz** (1922-2000)](https://schulzmuseum.org/about-schulz/): American cartoonist, creator of Peanuts - "Happiness is a warm puppy." *(Peanuts, April 25, 1960 - Lucy hugging Snoopy; later the title of his 1962 book)* - [**Jane Goodall** (1934-2025)](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Goodall): English primatologist and conservationist - "You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings." *(Interview with Robin McKie, The Observer, June 26, 2010)* - [**Mary Oliver** (1935-2019)](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver): American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner - "Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift." *(Dog Songs, 2013)* - [**Patricia B. McConnell** (1948-present)](https://www.patriciamcconnell.com/about-patricia/): American ethologist and dog trainer - "All dogs are brilliant at perceiving the slightest movement that we make, and they assume that each tiny movement has meaning." *(The Other End of the Leash, 2002)* - [**Alexandra Horowitz** (1969-present)](https://barnard.edu/profiles/alexandra-horowitz): American cognitive scientist, head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College - "Dogs don't act on the world by handling objects or by eyeballing them, as people might, or by pointing and asking others to act on the object; instead they bravely stride right up to a new, unknown object, stretch their magnificent snouts within millimeters of it, and take a nice deep sniff." *(Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, 2009)* ## Related - [[Programmers Quotes]] - [[Spiritual Leaders Quotes]] - [[Musicians Quotes]] - [[How To Get Started]]