“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
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“Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.”
Although very commonly attributed to Fields, this is derived from a statement that was actually first said about him by Leo Rosten during a "roast" at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) "The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
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Variant: Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad.
The Confessions of a Lost Dog https://books.google.it/books?id=uNgBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 (London: Griffith & Farran, 1867), pp. 15-16.
“There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.”
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog