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Quotes About Feline

Minky, the littlest cat, look as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail where the snow didn't melt either.
~ Anne Michaels
The cat made a comma of sweat across his bare thighs.
~ Anne Tyler
But then: a pink nose tiny black paws and blinking sleepy eyes a small black fur ball not a BIG fat fur ball a kitten stumbling out of a basket and wobbling over to me and crawling up on my lap and licking my pajamas and I forgot that I hate cats as it crawled up onto my chest and purrrrrred and I was smiiiiiling all over the place.
~ Sharon Creech
while I . . . napped on the couch, beneath Breccia, who, like all cats, weighed twenty pounds more asleep than awake.
~ Sharon Lee
I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.
~ Wendy C. Ortiz
Jeoffry lays back his ears and continues to creep, as the Moppet showed him. she had said,
~ Elizabeth Bear
Only more cat-shaped. (Jeoffry, a poet's cat, has ignored vast amounts of Milton over the years, but some of it has apparently stuck.)
~ Elizabeth Bear
Pussycat. Isn't it time thou didst admit where thou dost belong?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Boris, baby. How many lives are you on now?
~ Elizabeth Bear
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Unfortunately for you, cats love games." He moved toward her slowly. "We prowl, we stalk, we tease, and then we pounce." "I
~ Aubrey Ross
My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.
~ Michael Dirda
What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.
~ Garth Nix
Every cat is royal," Mani declared in a tone that said he would be mad if you argued. "I am myself.
~ Gene Wolfe
Laurie pressa le bouton de sonnette et attendit. Un chat, allongé au soleil, se leva en s'étirant et s'approcha à pas délicats pour inspecter la visiteuse. Sa fourrure ambrée resplendissait dans la lumière vive. – Bonjour, chat ! Parles-tu anglais ? murmura Laurie en le caressant. Le chat ronronna et se frotta contre sa jambe. C'était sans aucun doute un chat polyglotte.
~ Sally Wentworth
I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."
~ Christopher Walken
I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.
~ Michael Showalter
A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
~ Andy Rooney
If only I could talk Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —Doctor Ellington, the cat
~ Margaret Weis
Rimasi meravigliato nell'osservare come fosse piccolo quel viso dal quale veniva tanta luce; seduta così sotto la loggia, la gatta ai piedi sul lembo della veste, sembrava un'immagine da pittura di un genere non ancora inventato.
~ Maria Bellonci
A cat is an excuse for a lonely woman to talk to herself. That's what a cat is.
~ Mark Helprin
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
~ Mark Twain
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
~ Mark Twain
As the ancients said,     The cat triumphant purrs like a tiger.
~ Anthony C. Yu