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Cat Quotes by Carl Van Vechten
- Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
- ...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and…
- The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
- Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
- The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
- One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
- A cat is never vulgar.
- The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
- The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
- As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I…
- Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
- Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
- There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
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