quotations about cats
Cats kept their secrets; they yielded to no one.
ELIZABETH REDFERN
Music of the Spheres
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reason.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
"mehitabel"
There's nothing like the company of a cat. Your cat is a loyal friend, a warm sleeping-buddy, a playmate, a confidant, a presence.... Cats bring joy and delight to everyday life. Stroking a cat can even lower your blood pressure.
WENDY CHRISTENSEN
The Humane Society of the United States Complete Guide to Cat Care
Cats ... have a natural affinity for people who don't like them--very perverse creatures.
ALAN GOLDSMITH
Waldo Chicken Wakes the Dead
If dogs are like high school, cats are like a really tough Ph.D. program.
SIOBHAN ADCOCK
30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30
If cats have been the friends of man for so many centuries, could nature not have adapted itself, just a little, away from the formula: five or six kittens to a litter, four times a year?
DORIS LESSING
Particularly Cats
Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
foreword, The Power of Purrs
Cats are like women: allow them to nurse and attend you when ill, and they are sure to love you.
GORDON STABLES
Cats: Their Points and Characteristics
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
GARRISON KEILLOR
attributed, The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Sexual Personae
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
DORIS LESSING
On Cats
Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.
CAROLINE KNAPP
The Merry Recluse
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
A.S.J. TESSIMOND
Cats
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAU
attributed, How to Hide Your Cat from the Landlord
Cats are like Thoreau. You cannot explain them.
DAN SKLAR
Bicycles
All cats were at first wild, but were at length tamed by the industry of Mankind; it is a Beast of prey, even the tame one, more especially the wild, it being in the opinion of many nothing but a diminutive lion.
WILLIAM SALMON
The Complete English Physician
You know what cats are like--fast on their feet and not very grateful.
HELEN MAGEE
What's French for Help
The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch.
FRANCOIS RENE
attributed, The Cat Fanatic
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
"The Rats in the Walls"
The uncertainty of cats has been thrown in their teeth, but to the true cat-lover this uncertainty is a most attractive trait. One may live in a house for six months with a cat and never receive from it a single kindly word or look. It will perhaps sit quietly on your lap as long as you hold it there, for it hates struggling; but the moment your vigilance is relaxed down it jumps, and licks itself carefully, as a sign that your caresses are anything but agreeable. It will purr when you go down on your knees on the hearthrug and rub it under the chin; but it is purring at itself, not you. Your hand is only a stroking machine. It is not in the least afraid of you, but in a hundred ways it shows that it has no use for your caresses, and that it would rather not be encumbered by unasked attention. Yet, suddenly, and without any cause, this very same cat will one day become, for half an hour or an hour, your dearest friend.
"The Cat in Literature,"
Living Age, vol. 217