Cat Quotes

2174 Cat quotes by 1209 unique authors

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. — Charlotte Gray
Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun — Lloyd Alexander
The cat in gloves catches no mice. — Benjamin Franklin
What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys? — Douglas Coupland
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. — Doug Larson
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for. — George Eliot
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer… — William S. Burroughs
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as… — William S. Burroughs
Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping. — Cleveland Amory
Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places. — Wright Morris
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. — Oscar Wilde
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room. — E. V. Lucas
A cat has absolute honesty. — Ernest Hemingway
Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the… — Cleveland Amory
To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality — Lilian Jackson Braun
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it — Susan Howatch
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats. — Dante Alighieri
A woman hath nine lives like a cat. — John Heywood
A harmless necessary cat. — William Shakespeare
What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. — William Shakespeare
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. — Jonathan Swift
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. — Jonathan Swift

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