Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

• There are no ordinary cats.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Cat, Animal, Pet

  "There hangs a tail ..." by Justine Hankins, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2004.

• A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Gratitude, Animal, Understanding

• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Faith, Fall, Sleep

• I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Lying, Cat

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