All Things Bright And Beautiful Quotes
"There are few pleasures in this world to compare with snuggling up to a nice woman when you are half frozen."
"It is surprising how deeply bone-marrow cold a man can get when he is dragged from his bed in the small hours."
"With a sigh of thankfulness, I felt the blissful warmth envelop me."
"He was really letting it rip, head back, mouth wide."
"It was worth getting out just to come back to this."
"After all, there's nothing difficult about bringing your instruments away, is there?"
"The sound of the sheep, the sound of spring."
"This form of self-indulgence had become part of my life; a penchant for stepping out of the stream of life and loitering on the brink for a few minutes."
"I suppose we could say that this dog is to some degree a difficult animal."
"When there's stock, there's trouble, and I know from experience that trouble always comes in cyclones."
"I think nowt to glucose," he grunted. "I've had a go with it and I think nowt to it."
"Hard work's all right up to a point but you need a break some time."
"It's the kind of world we're living in today."
"He was as strong and tough as any of the shaggy beasts which ranged his fields but he had just melted away in a few weeks."
"There wasn’t much of her, in fact she must have been one of the smallest women I have ever seen—around five feet high—but there was a core of steel in her."
"Her speech was what the farmers would call 'very proper' but it went with her personality which to me embodied a determination to do everything as correctly as possible."
"The unfortunate feline species seemed to be fair game for every kind of cruelty and neglect."
"He made a sudden leap and grabbed Boris’s tail."
"I cringed inwardly as he shouted over to me happily."
"Most people had to look up at Colonel Bosworth with his lean six feet three inches."
"He was a formidable man but he was unfailingly courteous and there was a gentleness in him which showed in his attitude to his animals."
"His eyes were strained and there was shock and hurt in his face."
"If a vet can't catch his patient, there's nothing much to worry about."
"Animals confronted with severe continuous pain...will often retreat even into death, and if you can remove that pain, amazing things can happen."
"The sight of the little form trotting ahead of me lent a depth which had been missing before."
"Those were the days when I was most grateful I was in country practice."
"Anybody who has ever walked a dog knows the abiding satisfaction which comes from giving pleasure to a loved animal."
"I felt at one with all the airy life and growth about me and was glad that I had become what I never thought I would be, a doctor of farm animals."
"I knew before I looked under the hood what kind of baby I would find."
"And over the years, whenever I saw Penny running around...I felt a renewed welling of thankfulness for the cure which I discovered in a dark corner of a stable by accident."
"I do not wish to give the impression that I advocate wholesale anaesthesia for all animal ailments but I do know that sedation has a definite place."
"A long-eared head blotted out the sunshine as Sam came and sat on my chest."
"Most dogs love car riding but to Sam it was a passion which never waned."
"The only place I didn’t dare take him was the cinema."
"It was the greatest good fortune not only to be fascinated by animals but to know about them."
"This was the sort of setting in which I usually pulled off my spectacular cures."
"A little triumph, intensely satisfying but by no means world shaking."
"The endless wash of pale tints, the gold of the stubble, the dark smudges of woods, the mottled greens of the pasture land were like a perfect water colour."
"I would come back to it all...back to my work...my hard, honest and fine profession."
"The clean air was touched with the sweetness of the dying year."
"The great wide clean-blown face of Yorkshire."
"The bond he formed with his dog led to his interest in veterinary medicine."