J. R. Ackerley quotes:

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.

I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!