Cat Quotes
2174 Cat quotes by 1209 unique authors
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We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.
— Unknown Author
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Intelligence in the cat is underrated.
— Louis Wain
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There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
— Champfleury
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A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
— Champfleury
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The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the…
— Sydney, Lady Morgan
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As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger...
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.
— Champfleury
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Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?
— Unknown Author
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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look…
— Eric Gurney
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A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.
— Unknown Author
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There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful,…
— Monica Edwards
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Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.
— Paul Gray
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Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
— Paul Gray
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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.…
— Eric Gurney
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There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
— Monica Edwards
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The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.
— Michael J. Rosen
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Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
— Louis J. Camuti
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...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…
— Carl Van Vechten
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If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time...
— Champfleury
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A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
— Jean Burden
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A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.
— Fred Schwab
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At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.
— Margaret Benson
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The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
— Carl Van Vechten
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His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True…
— Derek Tangye
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