Animal Characteristics Quotes

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

A dog has got human eyes.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.