12 quotes about Cats

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.

— Bly, Mary

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

— Chandler, Raymond

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

— Chandler, Raymond

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

— Dahlberg, Edward

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

— Davies, Robertson

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

— Lessing, Doris

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

— Marquis, Don

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

— Midler, Bette

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

— Paglia, Camille

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

— Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

— Twain, Mark

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

— Valdez, Jeff