James Herriot Quotations

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

I will write another book if I feel like it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

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