These 30 dog quotes are by authors with surnames starting with "D". Click on the Next link at the bottom to see the rest of the "D" quotes.
There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Dick Dale
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
Charles Anderson Dana, "What Is News?", The New York Sun
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield
I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.
Jeff Daniels, about shooting the film 101 Dalmatians
The dog's most important job is still around. Like the legendary Cerberus, the dog still keeps many of us from the Hell of Loneliness.
Tara and Kathy Darling
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with dropping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
Charles Darwin
A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.
Mary Carolyn Davies
The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
Doris Day
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
Honoré de Balzac
Every dog has his day.
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters; others have stayed upon their masters' graves without stirring a moment from them, and have voluntarily starved themselves to death, refusing to touch the food that was brought them.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is well to love even a dog when you have the opportunity, for fear you should find nothing else worth loving.
Louise Honorine de Choiseul
Lord,
No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
Carmon Bernos de Gaesztold, The Prayer for the Dog
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
Q: If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
A: A dog, so my wife would love me more.
Oscar de la Renta, in an interview in Vanity Fair
My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.
She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.
Mazo de la Roche
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
Guy de la Valdene
The more I see of the depressing stature of people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine
You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Madame de Staël
