Cat Quotes

"But the quiet life, fundamentally, is not too interesting for a cat. The idea of a cat satisfied with a saucer of milk and a place by the fire is only half the picture. The more important half we can only guess at. It starts where we leave off - in the larger community outdoors." - Lloyd Alexander

"The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the co-ordination of mind and muscle." - Roseanne Ambrose Brown

"While the cat is away the mice will play." - Anon

"French novelist Colette was a firm cat-lover. When she was in the US she saw a cat sitting in the street. She went over to talk to it and the two of them mewed at each other for a friendly minute. Colette turned to her companion and exclaimed 'Enfin! Quelqu'un qui parle francais.' (At last! Someone who speaks French.)" - Anon

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you. Rudimace always peed in our shoes." - W.H. Auden

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you." - Mary Bly

"A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor." - Arthur Bridges

"A cat is a Regency gentleman - elegant of post, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navvy blanch." - Pam Brown

"Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet." - Pam Brown

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home." - Pam Brown

"Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously." - Dr. Louis Camuti

"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr." - Lewis Carroll

"There are no ordinary cats." - Collette

"A well kept cat has fur as soft and smooth as silk. Cats' eyes are pools of beauty and enchantment, and the way their oval pupils get smaller and bigger is just wonderful to watch." - Sheila Connell

"Cats only assume their strangest, most intriguing and most beautiful postures when it is impossible to photograph them. Cat calendars always disappoint for they only show the public range of cat positions." - J.R. Coulson

"We tie bright ribbons around their necks, and occasionally little tinkling bells, and we affect to think they are as sweet and vapid as the coy name 'kitty' by which we call them would imply. It is a curious illusion. For, purring beside our fireplaces and pattering along out back fences, we have got a wild beast as uncowed and uncorrupted as any under heaven." - Alan Devoe

"To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique." - Jenny De Vries

"What greater gift than the love of a cat?" - Charles Dickens

"A cat is always on the wrong side of the door!" - Allen & Ivy Dodd

"There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience." - Allen & Ivy Dodd

"Everything a cat is an does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment." - Paul Gallico (from 'An Honourable Cat')

"Poets generally love cats - because poets have no delusions about their own superiority." - Marion Garretty

"They come to sit on the table by the writer, keeping his thoughts comany, and gazing at him with intelligent tenderness and magical penetration. It seems as though cats divine the thought that is passing from the brain to the pen, and that as they stretch out a paw, they are trying to seize it on its way." - Theophile Gautier

"He makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. He remains for whole evenings on your knee, uttering his contented purr, happy to be with you, and forsaking the company of animals of his own species." - Theophile Gautier

"He loved books and when he found one open on the table he would lie down on it, turn over the edges of the leaves with his paw, and after a while, fall asleep, for all the world as if he had been reading a fashionable novel." - Theophile Gautier

"Any cat who misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf." - Charlotte Gray

"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls." - Eric Gurney

"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh." - Patricia Hitchcock

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln

"I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely and snugly encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied - so complacent." - Mary Morrow Lindbergh

"Cats do not wear their hearts on their sleeves, which is not to say that they so not miss you when you are away. However, they feel that you have behaved very badly and may not be very civil when you return. After you have apologised, normal relations can be resumed." - Susanne Millen

"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold." - Susanne Millen

"A cat who has taken umbrage is a terrible sight to see." - Rosemary Nisbet

"I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend to do. Rarely do you see a cat disomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them." - Barbara Webster (from 'Creatures and Contentments')