Patricia Moyes

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

— Patricia Moyes

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

— Patricia Moyes

it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start…

— Patricia Moyes

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

— Patricia Moyes

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark…

— Patricia Moyes

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

— Patricia Moyes

Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold…

— Patricia Moyes

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

— Patricia Moyes

“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.”

— Patricia Moyes

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

— Patricia Moyes

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

— Patricia Moyes

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

— Patricia Moyes

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and…

— Patricia Moyes

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a…

— Patricia Moyes