quotations about cats
Cats are like the French: meals are very important to them, and they want to savor the experience without interruptions.
KIM CAMPBELL THORNTON
Your New Cat
We have to afford cats the same sort of dignity we do with a human.
NICK DOUGLAS
"How to Get a Cat to Like You", lifehacker, August 22, 2018
Black cat come visit me, I don't care what people say
I saw your hazel eyes, sparkling in the moonlight
Black cat one day things will change, I'm gonna wipe away your bad name
My friend tells me you're no good, and I say hey I'm not afraid
ZIGGY MARLEY
"Black Cat", Love Is My Religion
Cats ... have a natural affinity for people who don't like them--very perverse creatures.
ALAN GOLDSMITH
Waldo Chicken Wakes the Dead
A cat is not merely diverted by everything that moves, but is convinced that all nature is occupied exclusively with catering to her diversion.
FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE PARADIS DE MONCRIF
attributed, The Fireside Sphinx
Cat said, "I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself."
RUDYARD KIPLING
Just So Stories
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Sexual Personae
Cats are like guests you're never sure of and are always trying to please.
MARY WELLS LAWRENCE
A Big Life in Advertising
Confront a cat with something he has never seen before and his first reaction will almost invariably be one not of fear but of curiosity.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
Cat's Company
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
DORIS LESSING
On Cats
Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.
CAROLINE KNAPP
The Merry Recluse
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.
DORIS LESSING
The Old Age of El Magnifico
Cats are like supermodels; they want you to please them.
EMILY YOFFE
What the Dog Did
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"
The moral charm of the cat consists in one's complete inability to fathom their minds and motives. A dog's mind is generally a clear and straightforward affair. You can never discover what strange things are passing in a cat's brain. You know that a dog is looking up to you, following your whims and reflecting your fancies--is, in a word, intellectually dependent upon his master. Not so with a cat. The cat is never the servant of your hand and eye. She may deign to play with you, but it is always with reserves complete enough to save her own individuality and freedom of action. The cat plays with you as much as you with her.
"The Cat in Literature,"
Living Age, vol. 217
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON
Reader's Digest, vol. 136
The self-esteem of a cat is extraordinary.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
Levels
If cats have been the friends of man for so many centuries, could nature not have adapted itself, just a little, away from the formula: five or six kittens to a litter, four times a year?
DORIS LESSING
Particularly Cats
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
GARRISON KEILLOR
attributed, The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts
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"