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Quotes About Cats

Got a ship with women and cats aboard, you'll have the finest luck you can hope
~ Scott Lynch
I don't get it,' said Locke, gently tugging at the scruff of Regal's neck. 'I never even liked cats all that much.' 'Surely you realize,' said Patience, 'that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.
~ Scott Lynch
Q: What do cats have for breakfast? A: Mice Crispies.
~ Scott McNeely
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.
~ Michael Showalter
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
~ Mark Twain
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
~ Mark Twain
Say—what is dead cats good for, Huck? Good for? Cure warts with.
~ Mark Twain
Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.
~ Mark Twain
In Honolulu, I saw cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep.
~ Mark Twain
Ignorant people think it's the NOISE which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
~ Mark Twain
Si los gatos y los hombres se cruzasen, ganaría mucho la raza humana y perdería mucho la gatuna
~ Mark Twain
And so now, in the shadow of unspoken events, I watch Zampanò's courtyard darken. Everything whimsical has left. I try to study the light-going carefully. From my room. In the glass of memory. In the moonstream of my imagination. The weeds, the windows, every bench. But the old man is not there, and the cats are all gone. Something else has taken their place. Something I am unable to see. Waiting. I'm afraid. It is hungry. It is immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed
~ Spider Robinson
A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.
~ Stephen King
if you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere
~ Stephen King
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
~ Juliet Mills
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
~ James Herriot
I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
~ Amy Lee
I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.
~ Taylor Swift
Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.
~ Jon Evans
Hang on, the cats are demanding their second breakfast. One second.
~ Jon Scieszka
All nature is full of hatred for humans. I don't think man has any friends among plants or animals. I suspect that even dogs and cats, those so-called best friends of man, are only pretending friendship to man in order to spy on his misdeeds, and they would betray him without blinking an eye the first chance they had. They know that Man is the worst of the beasts.
~ Jonas Mekas
Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.
~ Jonathan Gash