Cat Quotes - Page 6

• Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

  Beverley Nichols

  Expression, House, Wickedness

  Beverley Nichols (1960). “Cats' A. B. C.”

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• A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

  Henri Poincare

  Witty, Nerves, Moments

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• While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

  Mark Twain

  People, Apes, Red Hair

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Doe, Reason

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• All I need to know I learned from my cat.

  Suzy Becker

  Needs, Knows

  Suzy Becker (2014). “Kate the Great, Except When She's Not”, Crown Books for Young Readers

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• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

  Mason Cooley

  Hate, Pet, Literature

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• I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Opinion, Kitten, Persian

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• Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.

  Irving Townsend

  Animal, Humanity, Coats

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• Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Funny, Wise

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• Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

  Andrew Lang

  Animal, Wheels, Existence

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• ...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Men, Suffering, Remember

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Hands, Pulse

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

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• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

  Theophile Gautier

  Animal Behavior, Difficult, Pet Animals

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• Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

  Rod McKuen

  Sleep, Pet, Want

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• Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ego, Sense Of Humor, Touchy

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Animal, Liberty, Anarchist

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Love You, Hungry, Asks

  Louis J. Camuti, Lloyd Alexander (1962). “Park Avenue Vet”

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• Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

  Theophile Gautier

  Affection, Fidelity, Given

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• If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

  Theophile Gautier

  Affection, Slave, Worthy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the night all cats are gray.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Night, Gray

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.339

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• The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.

  Edward Graham Paley

  Lasts, Innocence

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• So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Girl, Interesting, Trying

  "Live From Nintendo's E3 Briefing: More On Zelda, 3DS, Pikmin" by Luke Plunkett, kotaku.com. July 15, 2010.

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• It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

  Eleanor Porter

  Dog, Pet, Canine

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

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• Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dog, Blame, Sin

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• A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Animal, Humanity, Opinion

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.191, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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