94 Quotes by James Herriot

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

I will write another book if I feel like it.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

I hope to make people realise how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must be that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.