Cat Quotes - Page 40

• With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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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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• 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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