Cat Quote by Lilian Jackson Braun Download Open image “Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?” — Lilian Jackson Braun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cat Communicate Communication Contempt Language Should Speech
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to… — Beryl Reid Copy Share Image
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one! — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
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… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“that's what i mean about cats. they're always trying to make fools of us humans.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
Home is where i hang my toothbrush and where the cats have their commode — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“Amanda raised her glass in a toast. “Here’s a wet one to Saint Iris of the Hummocks!” Then she winced and scowled at Riker,… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“A female feline named Katta Is getting fatta and fatta But she's pretty and purry And funny and furry So what does an ounce… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“The cranks are always with us,” Qwilleran said, “hiding behind trees, peeking around corners, going about in disguise, and plotting their selfish little schemes.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“Enchanté!” said Qwilleran, bending low over her hand in a courtly gesture. Then he drew from his pocket a perfect Bosc pear with bronze skin and long, curved stem, offering it in the palm of his hand like a jewel-encrusted Fabergé bauble. “The perfect complement for your beautiful apartment, Mademoiselle.” The Countess was a trifle slow in responding. “How charming . . .… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share
Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in. — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“Then one day he sent her a single long-stemmed rose with the famous Hfez of Shrz poem that you probably know.” She recited the… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“He agreed with Francis Bacon: Old friends to trust, old wood to burn, old authors to read.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“How do you describe your style?” he asked as they drove back to the rocky beach. “Descriptive but not realistic. Makes viewers use a… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”…… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog… — Mike Harding Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image