Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amorywas an American author, reporter and commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions and customs of society, starting with The Proper Bostonians in 1947. From the 1950s through the 1990s, he had a long career as a reporter and writer for national magazines, and as a television and radio commentator. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he was best known for his bestselling books about...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth2 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly the way we dream, and about everything in their lives--that they have good dreams and bad dreams in almost direct proportion, as we do, to whether their lives have been more good than bad. Unfortunately, because the majority of animals have it so much tougher than we do, I believe that the majority of dreams, except in the most fortunate petdom, are bad.
Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.
Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?
Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.
In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.
To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget. Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.
People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.