Dog Quotes - Friendship

“Spaniels by Nature are very loving, surpassing all other Creatures, for in Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, Day and Night,
they will not forsake their Master.”
Richard Blome

“Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, after he was saved by a Newfoundland from slipping on his ship and falling overboard. He couldn’t swim and the dog kept him
above water until he was rescued.

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what?
By the grief of one dog.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, when he saw a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after battle. Napoleon was haunted by the memory for the rest of his life.

“There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, speaking to French courtiers who hadn’t followed
him to Elba, after he escaped from there.

“If there is no God for thee, then there is no God for me.”
Anna Hempstead Branch

“If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose
that is asking for too much.”
Eva Braun

“Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.”
Nash Buckingham

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will
make a fool of himself too.”
Samuel Butler, Higgledy-Piggledy

“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend."
Lord Byron

“Only my dogs will not betray me.”
Maria Callas