Quotes about lapdog

A collection of quotes on the topic of lapdog.

Quotes about lapdog

“No wonder Barrons was so determined to keep me alive, and I had a Fae prince playing lapdog, and the Lord Master hadn't yet launched a full scale attack against me. They allme alive. I was Tigger. I was the only one.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

“The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Cute , Thinking , Tree , Change

“Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 157.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Man may […] be master of his fate, but he has a precious poor servant. It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. 299

Fate

“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

"The State Within the State" (1991).
1990s, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)

Peace