"A dog will flatter you but you have…" — George Mikes
"A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat."
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71 Quotes by George Mikes
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I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that…
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent…
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To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
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Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease -…
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view…
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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language.…
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Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest…
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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never…
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More Cat Quotes
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one of 2,174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats…
— Antonio Banderas
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
— Scott Adams
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I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs…
— Kristen Bell
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs,…
— Elayne Boosler
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
— Anthony Bourdain
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