Quotations about Cats

An ever expanding collection of thoughts about cats

Quotes from lots of writers, alphabetical by writer

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"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction--and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by."
--Stephen Baker

"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat."
--Wesley Bates

"If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'"
--Roy Blount, Jr.

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
-- William Bennett

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
--Ellen Perry Berkeley

"The cat fulfills a need to care and to interact without
question, to express emotion and receive love in return."
--- Claire Bessant

"As we all know, cats now rule the world."
--John R.F. Breen

"Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds."
--Jean Burden

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"
--Samuel Butler

"To err is human, to purr is feline."
--Robert Byrne

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

"Cats don't like change without their consent."
--Roger A. Caras

"The cat is the mirror of his human's mind… the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance."
--Winifred Carriere

"Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched."
-- Cervantes

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
--- Sir Winston Churchill

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."
--Jean Cocteau

"My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her."
--Colette

"Time spend with cats is never wasted."
-- Colette

"There are no ordinary cats."
-- Colette

"By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer."
--Colette

"Cats are designated friends."
--Norman Corwin

D-F

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
--Robertson Davies

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."
--Jim Davis

"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own."
--John Dingman

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

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat."
-- Warren Eckstein

"Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow."
--Monica Edwards

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days."
--Albert Einstein

"A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it."
--Joseph Epstein

"Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge."
--Eleanor Farjeon

"Cats know not how to pardon."
--- Jean de la Fontaine

"A cat can have kittens in the oven but that don't make them biscuits."
--- Frasier Show

"The smart cat doesn't let on that he is."
--H. G. Frommer

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