Cat Quote by T. S. Eliot

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

— Mary Abigail Dodge

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

— Carl Van Vechten

I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Rebecca West

Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

— Anonymous

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go…

— Thomas Huxley

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human…

— Camille Paglia

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

— Rachel Hartman

A cat has absolute honesty.

— Ernest Hemingway

A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!

— Milton Jones