Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by J. R. Ackerley

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. He was openly homosexual, a rarity in his time when homosexual activity was forbidden by law and socially ostracised.

British - Writer | November 4, 1896 - June 4, 1967

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Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

J. R. Ackerley

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

J. R. Ackerley

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.

J. R. Ackerley

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

J. R. Ackerley

I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.

J. R. Ackerley

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

J. R. Ackerley