After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it
understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
Charlotte Gray
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
Monica Edwards
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
George Mikes
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George Mikes
You own a dog but you feed a cat.
Jenny De Vries
One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste,
or a trial run for the jugular.
Helen Thomson
A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.
Sarah Thompson
Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.
Paul Gray
A cat does not want all the world to love her--only those she has chosen to love.
Helen Thomson
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier
One must love a cat on its own terms.
Peter Gray
Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all
of the time and beautiful some of the time.
Roger Caras
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience.
Pam Brown
Most cats enjoy kneading--digging their claws into rugs, fabrics or human arms or legs.
It exercises certain muscles, but I think they do it for fun, too.
Lloyd Alexander
Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration--and get between you and it.
Arthur Bridges
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to
another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail
belongs to her until you tread on it.
Henry David Thoreau
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
Paul Gray
The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and
the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the co-ordination of mind and muscle.
Roseanne Ambrose-Brown
Poets generally love cats--because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
Marion Garretty
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing,
attractive and an enchantment.
Paul Gallico
I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship.
They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing--or pretend to do.
Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret.
Maybe we secretly envy them.
Barbara Webster
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and
an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the
singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a
range of invective that would make a navvy blanch.
Pam Brown
We tie bright ribbons around their necks, and occasionally little tinkling bells,
and we affect to think that they are as sweet and vapid as the coy name 'kitty'
by which we call them would imply. It is a curious illusion. For, purring beside
our fireplaces and pattering along our back fences, we have got a wild beast as
uncowered and uncorrupted as any under heaven.
Alan Devoe
I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two
front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to
completely and snugly encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat,
that gesture, and so self-satisified--so complacent.
Mary Morrow Lindbergh
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be
over-estimated.
He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism.
I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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