CAT QUOTES V

quotations about cats

The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch.

FRANCOIS RENE

attributed, The Cat Fanatic


It is a very onconvenient habit of kittens ... that, whatever you say to them, they always purr.

LEWIS CARROLL

Through the Looking Glass


Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

ROGER CARAS

A Celebration of Cats


Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.

MICHAEL MEWSHAW

Playing Away


A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?

MARK TWAIN

Pudd'nhead Wilson


Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"The Rats in the Walls"


In the night all cats are gray.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

letter to E. Hoffmann Price, July 29, 1936


There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness


Some cats are like mystics or cloistered esthetes, finding waking life of no interest and entering it only for necessities such as eating, while others ... do not disdain the secular pastimes of hunting, lurking, and exploring.

VAL SCHAFFNER

The Algonquin Cat


Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

RICHARD ALDINGTON

Artifex


Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.

JEAN GENET

The Blacks


Man has been worshipping cat for centuries and cat has every intention of keeping it that way.

JOHN TICKNER

Tickner's Cats


Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cot it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

MARK TWAIN

notebook, Feb. 1894


Cats don't care if you're gay or straight, what your religion is, or whether you're conservative or liberal. They don't care if you're a few pounds overweight. Cats aren't threatened if you earn more than they do. Cat's don't have problems expressing affection in public, and if you piss 'em off, they walk away.

GLENDA MOORE

"Why Cats Are Better Than People"


Two green eyes and a coat of silk
Scourge of mice with a saucer of milk
I've got nine lives and I rhyme with mat
I'm a farmyard cat

PREFAB SPROUT

"Farmyard Cat", The Gunman and Other Stories


I've found that the way a person feels about cats--and the way they feel about him or her in return--is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character.

P.C. CAST & KRISTIN CAST

Marked


Cats are like statesmen--they prefer places to persons.

EDMUND HODGSON YATES

Two


A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.

DEREK TANGYE

A Cat in the Window


The cat is not in the long run anxious to please.

T. O. BEACHCROFT

Just Cats