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Cat Quotes
Part IV
Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. - Barbara Webster
It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. "Beauty," we shall call you. 'Beauty, come in.' " - Eve Merriam
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. - Paul Gray
Everything that moves, serves to interest and amuse a cat. He is convinced that nature is busying herself with his diversion; he can conceive of no other purpose in the universe. - F.A. Paradis de Moncrif
The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, colour scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever colour it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls. - Eric Gurney
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. - Aldous Huxley
Cats everywhere asleep on the bookshelves like motorized bookends. - Audrey Thomas
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do. - Karel Capek
Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal. - Sir Winston Churchill
It is no easy task to win the friendship of a cat. He is a philosopher, sedate, tranquil, a creature of habit, a lover of decency and order. He does not bestow his regard lightly, and, though he may consent to be your companion, he will never be your slave. - Theophile Gautier
Dear cat, honoured guest of my old house, arch your supple, tingling back, and curl upon my knee, to let me bathe my fingers in your warm fur. - Francois Lamaitre
There is something about the presence of a cat ... that seems to take the bite out of being alone. - Louis J. Camuti
The affections of the dog ... may be held firm by fear; but Pussy, if you behave too ignobly towards her, will cease to love you... She will not allow herself to love where she has ceased to respect. - Rosamund Ball Marriott Watson
What greater gift than the love of a cat? - Charles Dickens
At whiles it seems as if one were somewhat as the cats, which ever have appeared to me to be animals of two parts, the one of the house and the cushion and the prepared food, the other that is free of the night and runs wild with the wind in its coat and the smell of the earth in its nostrils. - Una L. Silberrad
The cat, an aristocrat, merits our esteem, while the dog only...got his position by low flatteries. - Alexandre Dumas
Anyone who has ever known a cat really well feels that this cat is superior to most Havard professors in brain power. - Gladys Tabor
The cat, in dignity and independence, is very much like the human animal should be but isn't. Perhaps that's my strongest reason for choosing the cat as a subject for the human animal to watch: some of the cat's dignity and indepedence may rub off on the watcher. - Paul Corey
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? - Eleanor H. Porter
To understand a cat, you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality. - Lilian Jackson Braun
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway
If left to their own devices, felines tend to nap and nibble throughout the day and night, scarcely differentiating between the two. - Lynn Hollyn
We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind. - St. George Mivart
I am indebted to the species of the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a great control over myself, for characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time. - Colette
The cat is the only creation which, being loved, can love and keep quiet. - Gilbert Ganne
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