Hector Hugh Munro Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Children, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

• He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Philosophy, Sleep, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

• The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

• A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Husband, Cat, Long

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.905, Delphi Classics

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