Best 21 quotes of Farley Mowat on MyQuotes

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

I believe in God the way my dog does

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

You never know when the devil might come calling.

...the three cardinal tenets of rum drinking in Newfoundland. The first of these is that as soon as a bottle is placed on a table it must be opened. This is done to "let the air get at it and carry off the black vapors." The second tenet is that a bottle, once opened, must never be restoppered, because of the belief that it will then go bad. No bottle of rum has ever gone bad in Newfoundland, but none has ever been restoppered, so there is no way of knowing whether this belief is reasonable. The final tenet is that an open bottle must be drunk as rapidly as possible "before all to-good goes out of it.

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.