J. R. Ackerley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.
-- J. R. Ackerley

#Dog #Heart #Dog Lover
Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.
-- J. R. Ackerley

#Friendship #Dog #Firsts
[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!
-- J. R. Ackerley

#Knitting #Criticism #Pieces
Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs
-- J. R. Ackerley

#Dog #Turns
Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.
-- J. R. Ackerley

#Dog #Writing #Noses
I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.
-- J. R. Ackerley

#Dog #Men #Mind

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
Dogs are us, only innocent.
Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.
To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

J. R. Ackerley famous quotes

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