“Dogs are clever fellows; they know all about politics […]”

Diary of a Madman (1835)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Dogs are clever fellows; they know all about politics […]" by Nikolai Gogol?
Nikolai Gogol photo
Nikolai Gogol 39
Russian writer 1809–1852

Related quotes

Rudyard Kipling photo

“We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It's clever, but is it Art?””

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

The Conundrum of the Workshops, Stanza 6.
Other works

Alexandre Dumas photo
Samuel Johnson photo

“I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

1769
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

Peter Sloterdijk photo
Steven Brust photo

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader.”

Source: Iorich (2010), p. 172 <!-- (goodreads) http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6874180 -->
Context: A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

George H. W. Bush photo

“My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.”

George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States

Quoted in Barry Hillenbrand (30 October 2000), " Global Warnings http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998337-3,00.html", Time; attributed as a 1992 remark about Bill Clinton and Al Gore

“A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

John Heywood photo

“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”

John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.

Chester A. Arthur photo

“What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.”

Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886) American politician, 21st President of the United States (in office from 1881 to 1885)

As quoted in Recollections of Thirteen Presidents, John S. Wise (1906).

Tom Tugendhat photo

Related topics