Cats Quotes

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

She has another curious trick (which may or may not be rare) of never killing anything. She brings ’em back alive and lets you take them away from her… Mice bore her, but she catches them if they insist and then I have to kill them. She has a sort of tired interest in gophers, […]

Lovers will no doubt point out that the elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be that as it may, it is obvious that the cat’s wealth of expressions make it an ideal candidate for […]

A cat doesn’t know what it wants and wants more of it.

When we have company she looks them over and decides almost instantly if she likes them. If she does she strolls over and plomps down on the floor just far away enough to make it a chore to pet her. If she doesn’t like them she sits in the middle of the living room, cast […]

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

There is nothing worse in nature than seeing a cat trying to provoke a few more hopeless attempts to escape out of a half-dead mouse. My enormous respect for our cat is largely based on a complete lack in her of this diabolical sadism. When she used to catch mice – we haven’t had any […]

Dr. Garnett – would say to you that the ancient Egyptians were the only really civilized race, for, when fires occurred in their great buildings, they organised environing cordons, not to put out the fires but to see that no cats re-entered their burning homes.

Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats all human life is there.