Animal kingdom Quote by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric…

— M.J. Rose

“How could such a powerful animal possess so generous a temperament as to carry man obediently and thoughtfully through the ages”

— Shania Twain

“Oh, Fairy Wogdog!' cried Rowsby Woof, dribbling and piddling all over the gravel. 'Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed…

— Richard Adams

“The unexamined life is eminently worth living, were anyone so fortunate. It would be the life of an animal, brave and alert, with instincts…

— Guy Davenport

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and…

— Monica Edwards

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

— Rebecca West

“ The Prologue to TERRITORY LOST "Of cats' first disobedience, and the height Of that forbidden tree whose doom'd ascent Brought man into the…

— Henry N. Beard

The appeal of the cat lies in the very fact that she has formed no close bond with [man], that she has the uncompromising…

— Konrad Lorenz

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they…

— Virginia Woolf

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

— Henry David Thoreau