Quotes by John Taintor Foote

"The winner of the National or the All America has Champion written before his name from that day on, and never again may compete in open trials. He is a crowned king, whose sons and daughters are of the blood royal. He may not stoop to struggle with more common clay."
John Taintor Foote
"He’s a flyin’ mchine, with a telescope nose. You got a grand dog, Mr. Gregory, a grand dog. A gamer dog never lived – he’ll try all the way; but this here dog that old fool’s go a hold of somehow aint’t human. In three hours he’ll find all the quail in the state!"
John Taintor Foote
"His spirit was sweeping like the wind over Elysian Fields and flashing into point after point on celestial quail."
John Taintor Foote
John Taintor Foote

John Taintor Foote (March 29, 1881 – January 28, 1950) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. Foote studied at Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, Ohio. He began as ...