Cats Quotes

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

~ Maureen Johnson

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

~ Walter Scott

Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

~ Ilona Andrews

Fucking nightmares.My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and I catapulted him off when I woke up. I don't remember, but I wish that I did, because it would've been hilarious.

~ Kendare Blake

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in the house. They welcome every pleasurable moment as it unravels and savour it to the full until a butterfly or falling leaf diverts their attention. They don't waste energy counting the number of calories they've consumed or the hours they've frittered away sunbathing.Cats don't beat themselves up about not working hard enough. They don't get up and go, they sit down and stay. For them, lethargy is an art form. From their vantage points on top of fences and window ledges, they see the treadmills of human obligations for what they are - a meaningless waste of nap time.

~ Helen Brown

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

~ Beverley Nichols

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.

~ Elle Newmark

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog...

~ Terry Pratchett

Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

~ Robert Zaretsky

God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger.

~ Joseph Méry

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger, the cat was not

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.

~ Kij Johnson

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food - which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. Asmodeus took to his toy enthusiastically. In another week he permitted me to stroke him, producing a raucous purr, but, in order to save his face, pretending to be asleep.

~ Geoffrey Household

Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.

~ Meg Cabot

The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.

~ Elizabeth Peters

i wish cats could float around your head

~ Megan Boyle

Look, we need to make time, but we also need to be somewhat quiet. She faced him. I am being quiet!Pathik held a finger up to his lips. Seriously. Quite. You don't really want to attract a lot of attention out here if you can help it.Rachel didn't like the sound of that. Are there sheep-cats?

~ Teri Hall

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

~ Charles Bukowski

(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

~ Chris Dee

I explained it loudand clear. What part of meowdon't you understand?

~ Lee Wardlaw

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

~ Lawrence Block

There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one...

~ Neil Gaiman

Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.

~ Muriel Barbery

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

~ John B. Heywood

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

~ Walter Savage Landor

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

~ Elizabeth Peters

What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory cousins and ancestors?

~ Nicholas Dodman

Cats may walk by themselves, but there are times when they need our support.

~ Nicholas Dodman

Cats are true carnivores. While you may choose a vegetarian lifestyle, don't assume it's healthier for your cat also. Cats aren't able to convert beta-carotene into vitamin A the way we can. They must get vitamin A from animal tissue (called preformed A). Cats are also unable to convert linoleic acid (an essential fatty acid) to arachidonic acid the way dogs can so they must get preformed arachidonic acid from its only source—animal tissue.

~ Pam Johnson-Bennett

Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small black kitten crept upstairs and sprang in Carter's lap to purr and play, and curled up near his feet when he lay down at last on the little couch whose pillows were stuffed with fragrant drowsy herbs.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Japanese goldfish,With your gossamer tail,You are the loveliest creatureI have ever seen.Japanese kitten,Put your tongue back in where it belongsAnd go away.I know exactly what you are thinking.

~ Paul Gallico

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

~ William S. Burroughs

When the tea is brought at five o'clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care,The little black cat with bright green eyesIs suddenly purring there.

~ Harold Monro

In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.

~ Jim Davis

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Sakaki: ...Why can't we just talk it over...?Tomo: You can't talk to cats.

~ Kiyohiko Azuma

I situate myself, and seat myself,And where you recline I shall recline,For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me.I loaf and curl up my tailI yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip p

~ Henry N. Beard

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

~ Carl Van Vechten