Cat Quotes

2174 Cat quotes by 1209 unique authors

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details. — Dean Koontz
…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off… — Gilbert Sorrentino
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent… — Haruki Murakami
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you… — Victor Hugo
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I… — Julio Cortazar
Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there… — Alex Shakar
When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw... — Cassandra Clare
What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now… — Neil Gaiman
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr.… — Richelle Mead
So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it,… — Salvador Plascencia
Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life. — Joanne Harris
And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said… — Lewis Carroll
The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll… — Neil Gaiman
Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~ — Lora Leigh
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered… — Barbara Mertz
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. — Confucius
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that… — Neil Gaiman
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it… — Charlotte Gray
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. — Scott Westerfeld
The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger… — Janet Evanovich
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that… — H P Lovecraft

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