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