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Quotes About Cat

Springtime has a surplus of sunbeams, and I am only feline.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.
~ Gilbert Adair
I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.
~ Gina Gershon
A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.
~ Author Unknown
The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet.
~ Proverb
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
~ French proverb
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does — but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. 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, A Tramp Abroad
Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.
~ Terri Guillemets
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
~ Jacqueline Carey
You like him? I nodded. I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him. You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat, she said in a pragmatic voice.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Half there, and half not, Grimalkin said, having suddenly appeared over Burton's shoulder. Sounds implausible to me.
~ James A. Owen
So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat.
~ James Ellroy
We had a cat in college named Chloe, and it was the most evil, awful cat in the world... When we left, we used to close the door, and its paw would come underneath and try to paw us.
~ Sean Hayes
I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.
~ Ryan Garcia
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?
~ Tennessee Williams
Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.
~ Terri Guillemets
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.
~ Terry Goodkind
She had also a taste for music. Nestling upon a pile of scores, she would listen most attentively and with every mark of satisfaction to the singers who came to perform at the critic's piano. But high notes made her nervous, and she never failed to close the singer's mouth with her paw if the lady sang the high A. We used to try the experiment for the fun of the thing, and it never failed once. It was quite impossible to fool my dilettante cat on that note.
~ Theophile Gautier
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
~ Theophile Gautier
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
~ Theresa May
Max had been a cat as long as he could remember, but he was pretty sure he'd been a rock star in one of his previous lives. He just had that kind of cool about him.
~ Theresa Weir
For a cat, he had very few aspirations. He didn't like the outdoors. Didn't like the way the grass felt on the pads of his feet. He was scared to death of birds. A severe case of over-domestication. Give
~ Theresa Weir
It's aspirational for me. I've lived as a cat lady. I'm happy to be a cat lady. I'll continue to be a cat lady. Just bring them all to my house, and I'll keep them all, no problem.
~ Hannah Simone