Cat Quotes · Page 38

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

— Prince Philip

“All right, you deadly little ghostlings,” I muttered. “Mama says go back to bed! - Cat”

— Jeaniene Frost

In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

— Tom Papa

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

— Mark Twain

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

— Anais Nin

We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other.

— P. D. James

I don't consider myself a fat cat. Don't make me out to be a fat cat.

— Norman Braman

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

— Iris Murdoch

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls…

— Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most…

— Will Advise

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a…

— Robert Breault

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for…

— Kathi Appelt

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your…

— Oscar Wilde

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person…

— Tony Bennett

Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit…

— Edith Södergran

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I…

— Torsten Wiesel

Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing,…

— Jeaniene Frost

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the…

— Cleveland Amory

Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap.…

— Cassandra Clare

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that…

— William S. Burroughs

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I…

— Michel de Montaigne

One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first base. After…

— Johnny Mize

The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting…

— Charlie Brooker

You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?

— Kevin Hearne

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

— Theophile Gautier

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

— Mark Twain

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...

— Hector Hugh Munro

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

— Terry Pratchett

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

— George Bernard Shaw

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

— Hippolyte Taine

I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of…

— George W. Buck

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

— Robert Anton Wilson

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

— Kate Morton

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

— Douglas Adams

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

— Barbara Mertz

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

— Jonathan Swift

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

— Mark Twain

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

— William Safire