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| Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past--they never do; they're too busy. | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows |  |
| " . . . we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." | Anna Sewell | Black Beauty | |
| It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair. | Jules Verne | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | |
| "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can." | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | |
| . . . but she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks. | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | |
| In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | |
| "I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea." | Bram Stoker | Dracula | |
| " . . . recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit." | Sir Walter Scott | The Talisman | |
| "You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor." | Sir Walter Scott | The Talisman | |
| Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | |
| Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | |
| There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. | Edgar Allan Poe | The Black Cat | |
| "It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?" | Eleanor H. Porter | Pollyanna | |
| A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Crime of The Brigadier | |
| "Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours." | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | |
| Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night. | Bram Stoker | Dracula | |
| And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. | Jack London | The Call of the Wild | |
| Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them . . . | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | |
| ". . . judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day." | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | |
