I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
Source: A Madman's Diary.
-- J August Strindberg, (Jan 22 1849-1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, short-story writer; He combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama, e.g. The Father, 1887.