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“They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore.”
― Mother Jones

“As we all know, poodles are a type of curly-haired dog preferred by petit bourgeois retirees, ladies very much on their own who transfer their affection upon their pet, or residential concierges ensconced in their gloomy loges. Poodles come in black or apricot. The apricot ones tend to be crabbier than the black ones, who on the other hand do not smell as nice. Though all poodles bark snappily at the slightest provocation, they are particularly inclined to do so when nothing at all is happening. They follow their master by trotting on their stiff little legs without moving the rest of their sausage-shaped trunk. Above all they have venomous little black eyes set deep in their insignificant eye-sockets. Poodles are ugly and stupid, submissive and boastful. They are poodles, after all”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I don't remember any blue poodles.”
― James Thurber, Many Moons

“Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.”
― Louis Sabin

“Erlaube," fuhr Meister Abraham fort, "erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergleichen. Er rettete einen Pudel, ein Tier, das jeder gern um sich duldet, von dem sogar angenehme Dienstleistungen zu erwarten, mittelst Apportieren, Handschuhe-, Tabaksbeutel- und Pfeife-Nachtragen usw., aber ich rettete einen Kater, ein Tier, vonr dem sich viele entsetzen, das allgemein als perfid, keiner sanften, wohlwollenden Gesinnung, keiner offenherzigen Freundschaft fähig ausgeschrieen wird, das niemals ganz und gar die feindliche Stellung gegen den Mensch aufgibt, ja, einen Kater rettete ich aus purer uneigennütziger Menschenliebe ... Es ist das gescheiteste, artigste, ja witzigste Tier der Art, das man sehen kann, dem es nur noch an der höhern Bildung fehlt, die du, mein lieber Johannes, ihm mit leichter Mühe beibringen wirst.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man”
― George Jean Nathan

“They're not poodles, they're art.”
― Rachael Leigh

“The nightmare creates a frightful and alarming impression, especially when a hairy animal appears in it, such as poodle (the most usual form of embodiment for evil demons).”
― James Hillman, Pan and the Nightmare

“It certainly seemed as if, once Charles had mentioned them, the creatures were going to haunt me through the Lebanon, but there was after all nothing so very odd about it; one might say that in England it is possible to be haunted by poodles.”
― Mary Stewart

“While the others had smooth skin and curly hair; Calliope had straight, smooth hair and kind of curly skin.”
― Finnegan McFinnegan, The "Ugly" Pugling - Calliope the Pug

“But it nettled her that friends often badgered her with statements such as "Poodles are sissy dogs." She decided that the best way to convince everyone that the Poodle, despite its fancy haircut, was as intelligent as any other breed, was to have them perform in a series of obedience exercises.”
― Blanche Saunders, The story of dog obedience

“And now that we were home, we could look back with tolerant appreciation of such times as when a little boy in Texas, watching his first demonstration of scent discrimination, shook his head and muttered, "Golly, that lady sure must stink." Or the courtly sheriff in Louisiana who looked at us in amazement when he heard that we had no men folk with us, and in five minutes - with true Southern hospitality - had every man on the place busying setting up camp for us. And the inevitable Poodle question we were always being asked, "Lady, does their hair grow that way?”
― Blanche Saunders, The story of dog obedience