Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

— Theophile Gautier

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a…

— Pam Brown

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

— Jeaniene Frost

Cats invented self-esteem.

— Erma Bombeck

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

— Pierre Loti

I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They…

— Patricia McPherson

“I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty…

— Jael McHenry

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

— John Green

Kittens can happen to anyone.

— Paul Gallico

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you…

— Ernest Hemingway

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the…

— Agnes Repplier

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family…

— Terry Pratchett

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and…

— Sarah Baker