Cat Quotes - Page 29

• Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving, Stranger, Magnus Bane

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• In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fashion, Eye, Paris

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Home, Feet, Giving

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.587, e-artnow

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

  Ray Bradbury

  Dog, Book, Play

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• She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless All your life you've never seen a woman Taken by the wind Would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win?

  Stevie Nicks

  Taken, Dark, Winning

  Song: Rhiannon

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• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Paris, Bird, Down And

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Hot Sauce, Stories

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• I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Night, Nice, Rain

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• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Remarkable, Glad

  John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931”, p.628, Faber & Faber

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• I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

  Vasily Grossman

  Beautiful, Dog, Want

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.120, Random House

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• Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Eye, Stuff

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenage, Party, Pet

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

  Scott Lynch

  Hands, Giving, Wagers

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1112, Random House

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• To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Mind, Kingdoms

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• Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sleep, Sky, Contentment

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Tongue, Smooth, Sponges

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• The thing about cats, as you may find,
  Is that no one knows what they have in mind.

  John Ciardi

  Mind, Might, Knows

  "You read to me, I'll read to you".

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• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Vanity, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

  Doris Day

  Havens

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• 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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• Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
  "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
  "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
  "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
  "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
  "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

  Lewis Carroll

  Crazy, People, Mad

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “CliffsComplete Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, Cliffs Notes

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• Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hot, Tin, Determined

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• For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Race, Feet, Pharaohs

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• The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Circles, Secret, Secret Thoughts

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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