quotations about cats
Cats kept their secrets; they yielded to no one.
ELIZABETH REDFERN
Music of the Spheres
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.
DORIS LESSING
The Old Age of El Magnifico
There's nothing like the company of a cat. Your cat is a loyal friend, a warm sleeping-buddy, a playmate, a confidant, a presence.... Cats bring joy and delight to everyday life. Stroking a cat can even lower your blood pressure.
WENDY CHRISTENSEN
The Humane Society of the United States Complete Guide to Cat Care
Confront a cat with something he has never seen before and his first reaction will almost invariably be one not of fear but of curiosity.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
Cat's Company
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Sexual Personae
Cats are like women: allow them to nurse and attend you when ill, and they are sure to love you.
GORDON STABLES
Cats: Their Points and Characteristics
If cats have been the friends of man for so many centuries, could nature not have adapted itself, just a little, away from the formula: five or six kittens to a litter, four times a year?
DORIS LESSING
Particularly Cats
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
GARRISON KEILLOR
attributed, The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts
Cats ... have a natural affinity for people who don't like them--very perverse creatures.
ALAN GOLDSMITH
Waldo Chicken Wakes the Dead
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
DORIS LESSING
On Cats
Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.
CAROLINE KNAPP
The Merry Recluse
Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
foreword, The Power of Purrs
Cats are like Thoreau. You cannot explain them.
DAN SKLAR
Bicycles
All cats were at first wild, but were at length tamed by the industry of Mankind; it is a Beast of prey, even the tame one, more especially the wild, it being in the opinion of many nothing but a diminutive lion.
WILLIAM SALMON
The Complete English Physician
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
A.S.J. TESSIMOND
Cats
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAU
attributed, How to Hide Your Cat from the Landlord
You know what cats are like--fast on their feet and not very grateful.
HELEN MAGEE
What's French for Help
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
"The Rats in the Walls"
The cat lives alone. He has no need of society. He obeys only when he wishes, he pretends to sleep the better to see, and scratches everything he can scratch.
FRANCOIS RENE
attributed, The Cat Fanatic
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
ROGER CARAS
A Celebration of Cats