Animal behavior Quote by Theophile Gautier Download Open image “It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.” — Theophile Gautier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal behavior Cat Cat lover Difficult Friendship Inspirational Love Pet animals
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“It is as absurd to say that a man is a drunkard because he describes an orgy or a debauchee because he recounts a… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Smoke By Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof askew, walls… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“A year-long study by the University of Pennsylvania, ending in 2009 and published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science (Elsevier), showed that aggressive… — Edward Custo Copy Share Image
“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing” — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Can we treat animal behavior with the same medicines, therapies, and approaches we use on humans? To me, the answer is an obvious yes.… — Nicholas Dodman Copy Share Image
The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image