Cat Quotes - Page 28

• He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Baby, Moon, Night

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• A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

  Will Durant

  Halos, Would Be, Sides

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• Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.

  Douglas Adams

  Queens, Expression, Teeth

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• But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Rose, Bud, Pity

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.204, Xist Publishing

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• Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

  Beatrix Potter

  Dust, Names, Once Upon A Time

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales”, VM eBooks

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• Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

  Oliver Herford

  Sorrow, May, Today

  Oliver Herford, “Song”

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• ... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

  William Cowper

  Bears, Kitten, Should

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.157

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• [My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

  William Cowper

  Shells, Delight, Suits

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• No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

  William Cowper

  Loss, Reflection, Hilarity

  "The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author".

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• [My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

  William Cowper

  Would Be, Incredibles, Kitten

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.267

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• I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

  William Cowper

  Skins, Kitten, Creatures

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: With a Life and Notes”, p.185

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• Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Meat, Milk, Couches

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Needs, Speak

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• In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Strong, Mind

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• Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Dust, Gold

  Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Pride, Gentle

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• Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

  George Sand

  Angel, Devil, Behave

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• Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

  Mel Brooks

  Angel, Reason, Mice

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• If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

  Sergio Aragones

  Halos, Tails, Ifs

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• As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Jumping, People, Giving

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

  Josh Billings

  Character, Men, Names

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• 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, Men, Self

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

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• The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

  Elmer Davis

  Would Be, Identification, Collars

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• A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

  John Updike

  Secret, Computer, Share

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• Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

  Vance Packard

  Horse, Fun, Good Friend

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