These 29 dog quotes are by authors with surnames beginning with "C". Click on the Previous link at the bottom to see the rest of the "C" quotes.
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Chuang-tzu
I am joy in a wooly coat, come to dance into your life, to make you laugh!
Julie Church
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
Tom Clancy
I just bought a Chihuahua. It's the dog for lazy people. You don't have to walk it. Just hold it out the window and squeeze.
Anthony Clark
I know that dogs are pack animals, but it is difficult to imagine a pack of standard poodles. And if there was such a thing as a pack of standard poodles, where would they rove to? Bloomingdale's?
Yvonne Clifford
Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.
Bill Clinton
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.
Frances P. Cobbe, The Confessions of a Lost Dog
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
Jean Cocteau
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
Richard J. Codey
And sometimes when you'd get up in the middle of the night you'd hear the reassuring thump, thump of her tail on the floor, letting you know that she was there and thinking of you.
William Cole
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Colette
'Twould make a dog laugh.
John Payne Collier
I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
Tre Cool
Be careful, Peter is one Republican in the White House who bites.
Calvin Coolidge, warning about Peter Pan, his wire fox terrier
Our late lamented English setter was spoilt, goofy, terrifyingly tenacious and possessed a totally unbridled sex drive. If he got on the trail of a bitch, he would charge across three main roads, race twenty miles until he caught up with her and then mount her from the wrong end.
Jilly Cooper
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: "Can I help, sir?"
"No thanks," says the blind bloke. "Just looking."
I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah."
I said "Why?"
He said "My dog's died."
Tommy Cooper
Like all celebrities, they've got a routine when on the road: first-class seat (always right side, second row, window), a stretch limo waiting, the finest suites and Evian water.
Todd Copilevitz, writing about Nipper and Chipper, the RCA Jack Russell terriers
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home who answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night.
Marie Corelli
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
Alan Coren
I have consolidated all the Stanley Coren dog quotes onto one page for easier access.
I don't eat anything that a dog won't eat. Like sushi. Ever see a dog eat sushi? He just sniffs it and says, "I don't think so." And this is an animal that licks between its legs and sniffs fire hydrants.
William Coronel
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
When an animal has feelings that are delicate and refined, and when they can be further perfected by education, then it becomes worthy of joining human society. To the highest degree the dog has all these qualities that merit human attention.
Count of Buffon
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
Noel Coward
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
Noel Coward, explaining to Laurence Olivier's young son about two dogs he saw copulating, and then asked what they were doing
Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
William Cowper
I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
Davy Crockett
How true it is that dogs reflect the character of their masters! A noisy, blustering windbag of a man inevitably has a dog that rushes out to roar at everything that will give ground to him. The dour chap possesses a sullen beast of kind, and your hail fellow sort of person usually owns a merry member of the tail-waggers that considers all passers-by friends.
Paul A. Curtis
You're only a dog, old fellow;
a dog, and you've had your day;
But never a friend of all my friends
has been truer than you alway.
Julian Stearns Cutler
