Cat Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cat Insincere Kindness May Real
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap? — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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 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;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind… — Tim Gunn 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
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any weakness to… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor 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… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image