A Foreword to Krazy (1946)
Context: A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
“Dogs hate lettuce.”
Rooster Teeth Podcast #484 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UXQPR0DLzU. youtube.com. March 21, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
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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.
“Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
Although a very common misconception is to attribute the final part of this quote to W.C. Fields himself, it was actually first said about him by Rosten during a "roast" of Fields at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977).
Context: The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
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“I don't want you to get the wrong idea. Not all liberals smoke lettuce!”
Bullet in a Bible (2005) (backstage in England).