Absolutes Quote by Theophile Gautier

“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of…

— Théophile Gautier

“Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end.”

— Will Advise

Cats are very affectionate. But you have to earn their love.

— James Bowen

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of…

— Charles Baudelaire

“The realest of cats love with all of their being...”

— Will Advise

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

Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them. And they…

— Henry Parry Liddon

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

I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“What does it mean to love an animal, in my case a cat, in the fierce, entire, and unambivalent way that some of us…

— Alice Adams

“I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his…

— L.M. Montgomery

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

— Theophile Gautier