“You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.”

“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”

“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”

“The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence.”

“With a twitching nose
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.”

“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”

“I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.”

“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”

“For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.”