Kevin Kline Quotes

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.

These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Dogs are us, only innocent.

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke.