Quotes about cats
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“She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Dogs, Color, Bee, Horse

“Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

People, Dogs, Chance

“Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.”

Eileen Wilks Mortal Danger

Source: Mortal Danger

Dogs, Mood, Understanding, Sense

“Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Nature, Thinking, Universe

“She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.”

Julia Child My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“What is that smell? (Nick)
(It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.)
Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark)
Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Thinking

“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 (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: Time Cat

Time

“I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over

Life, Cars

“You like the party?"
"Is it in honor of anything?"
"My cat's birthday."
"Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?"
"I dont know. He ran away."
-Magnus & Clary, pg.221-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Birthday

“Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Thinking

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Sleep

“Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Knowledge

“After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Business, Nature, Waiting

“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Animals, For Mother

“There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”

Dan Greenberg (1965) American politician

Variant: There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

Way, Personality

“terror finally becomes almost
bearable
but never quite

terror creeps like a cat
crawls like a cat
across my mind”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“We all have our different skills. You’re patient to a fault, which sometimes doesn’t work to your advantage. I, on the other hand, have the patience of a wet cat. Only on rare occasions does that come in handy.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Patience

“Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

Dodie Smith (1896–1990) English novelist and playwright

Love, Heart

“You like the party?
Is it in honour of anything?
My cat's birthday.
Where's your cat?
I don't know, he ran away.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Birthday

“Your cat just got cat hair on me.” “It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Hate, Thinking

“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Dogs

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Love, Home, Soul, For Mother

“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 (1898–1983) Author, playwright, journalist, composer

Source: Beverley Nichols' Cats' A Z

Feeling, Housing

“Cats are cats… the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011) author

Source: The Cat Who Saw Stars

Love, Hate, World, Peace

“I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I’m a cat. (Ravyn)
I suppose it’s a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Guy, Drink, Beer, Housing

“Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“I caught Bast’s arm when she was a few steps from the bank.
“Stay away from the water.”
She frowned. “Carter, I’m a cat. I’m not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need to do it at the riverbank.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Water

“JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself."
Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas."
Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Horse, Dance

“Cats cant speak, that's common sense.
-Yoruichi”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Sense

“Who runs a combination?" Keith asked. "With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

People

“William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

Source: In the Mecca

People

“You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Dogs, Home

“This cat is looking at me with judgment.”“He’s not,” said Jules. “That’s just his face.”“You look at me the same way,” Mark said, glancing at Julian. “Judgy face.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Way

“Frey was the god of spring and summer! read the caption. He was the god of wealth, abundance, and fertility. His twin sister, Freya, the goddess of love, was very pretty! She had cats!”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Love, God, Spring, Sister

“Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.
It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

People, Help

“Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

World

“You look like the vamp who bled the cat.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Men

“I thought you were dead."
Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Smile, Dead

“They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Law

“What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Search, Thinking

“One cat just leads to another."

[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943). ]”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: Selected Letters 1917-1961

“And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Smile, Time

“A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume…”

Amy Lowell (1874–1925) US writer

Night

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Tithe

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Thinking, Sleep

“But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?”

Frank Beddor book The Looking Glass Wars

Source: The Looking Glass Wars

“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”

Robert A. Heinlein book To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 164 (1987 Putnam edition; ISBN 9780399132674

“Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Love

“Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Drink

“The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering behind his lids. Not Jace's face, for a change. The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled. Cat eyes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Change

“And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Love, Feeling

“I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Sleep

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

I Have A Pony (1985)

“Am I still married to a cat? (Adrian)”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

“All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Jerk

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Color, Summer

“So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?”

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs

Source: Venus in Furs

“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

Life

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Happiness, Way, Mood, Thinking

“I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Hope, Boy

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”

Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer

Friendship, Animals

“I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But… can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

God, Imagination

“Hey, Cammie… tell Suzie she's a lucky cat."I seriously think not!”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Thinking

“Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Love

“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat

Moms

“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“A cat is there if you call her- if she doesn't have anything better to do.”

Bill Adler (1951) American journalist

“But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind."

Adrian”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Tea

“Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011) author

Source: The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office

Dogs

“Dying - you can't do that to a cat.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)”

Elizabeth Peters The Deeds of the Disturber

Source: The Deeds of the Disturber

Silence

“Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!”

Clare B. Dunkle (1964) American writer

Source: Close Kin

Change

“If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

Past

“Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. me, liked me.”
“you, liked you?” Magnus buried his grin in the cat’s fur. “Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don’t recall saying anything to Isabelle…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sister

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Alcohol

“When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw…”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Housing

“In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon…”

Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Moon

Source: Goodnight Moon

“I forgave you because I love you and I hate being without you. I hate it, my cat hates it. And because Catarina convinced me I was being stupid.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love, Hate, Stupidity

“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”

Jacquelyn Mitchard (1956) American journalist

People

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Life, Books

“These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Housing

“It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.”

Bruce Fogle (1944) veterinarian and author

Truth

“Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?"

Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers."

You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?"

Well, there are only four horsemen.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Storm Born

Death, War, Waiting

“I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats and
rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

World, Thinking, Night

“When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.”

Louise Rennison book Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Source: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.”

Eugen Weber (1925–2007) American historian

History

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Secret, Idea

“The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Of three things be wary-
of a feather on a cat,
The shepherd eating mutton,
And a guardsman that is fat.”

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

“Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat."
-Dess”

Scott Westerfeld book The Secret Hour

Source: The Secret Hour

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