Skunk Quotes

“One thing about a skunk—once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“.....it was like having a pet nuclear device.”
― Gary Paulsen

“In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.”
― Chris Farley

“Watching Sunday Justice in court got Kya thinking about how her family had never had a pet. Not one dog or cat. The only thing close was the female skunk- a silky, slinky, and sassy creature- who lived under the shack. Ma called her Chanel.
After a few near misses, they'd gotten to know one another, and Chanel became very polite, only flashing her armament when the kids got too rowdy. She'd come and go, sometimes within feet of whoever was coming up or down the brick 'n' boards.
Every spring she'd escort her little kits on forays into the oak woods and along the slipstreams. Them scurrying behind, running into and over one another in black-and-white confusions.
Pa, of course, was always threatening to get rid of her, but Jodie, showing maturity far beyond his father's, deadpanned, "Another one'll just move in, and I always reckoned it's better the skunk ya know than the skunk ya don't know.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Many items the skunk had were of the highest quality including bathroom vanities and hand and paw washing areas constructed by Finland’s well-known designer, Helsinki.”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“The boy raised the can to his nose and smelled, his lips wrinkling back as if he'd caught the business end of a skunk.”
― R.J. Lawrence, The Fortunate Only

“The nastiest roadkill there is, is a skunk. Really.

Never breathe within forty yards of roadkill.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“the most traumatized are the ones who shape our culture like a microbiologist shapes clay on their lunch break after looking at too many cultures,' the skunk explained.”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites