100 Cat Quotes

I’m more of a dog person than a cat person; but, I’ve always admired the elegant beauty and graceful movements of all cats. Big or little, they are magnificent creatures to behold! Maybe my tendency to stay clear of stray cats stems my mom’s supernatural fear of all cats. She tried to teach me that cats embody evil spirits. Of course, I don’t believe that!

But, I do have a friend who has a beautiful tabby that is definitely a little she-devil! Her husband has the scars on his hands and arms to prove it; and, she almost got me one night on my way to the bathroom when I was a guest at their house. : )

Nevertheless, I still admire cats—and love to play with kittens as much as puppies!

100 QUOTES ABOUT CATS

1. Sometimes he curls up on my pillow during the night and I don’t know he’s there until I yawn and my mouth closes on a whisker.
- Astrid Alauda

2. Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun.
- Lloyd Alexander

3. In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
- Rosanne Amberson

4. There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
- Wesley Bates

5. As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley

6. Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
- Roy Blount, Jr.

7. Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
- Mary Bly

8. Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.
- Lillian Jackson Braun

9. A cat isn’t fussy—just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.
- Arthur Bridges

10. One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
-Pam Brown

11. Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
-Pam Brown

12. In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
- Dereke Bruce

13. The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal—it’s also the reason they hate birds.
- K. C. Buffington

14. A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
- Jean Burden

15. Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?
- Dr. Louis J. Camuti

16. A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
- Dr. Louis J. Camuti

17. Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
- Winifred Carriere

18. There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
- Jules Champfleury

19. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

20. I love cats because I enjoy my home; and, little by little, they become its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau

21. The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.
- Colette

22. Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.
- Paul Corey

23. The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.
- Patricia Dale-Green

24. I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
- Bill Dana

25. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.
- Rodney Dangerfield

26. Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures; and, cats like authors for the same reasons.
- Robertson Davies

27. Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
- Jim Davis

28. If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart.
- Alan Devoe

29. What greater gift than the love of a cat?
- Charles Dickens

30. Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
- Missy Dizick

31. No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat—and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
- Leo Dworken

32. In the beginning, God created man; but, seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
- Warren Eckstein

33. People that don’t like cats haven’t met the right one yet.
- Deborah A. Edwards

34. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

35. A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
- Joseph Epstein

36. It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.
- Eleanor Farjeon

37. Time spent with cats is never wasted.
- Sigmund Freud

38. After scolding one’s cat, one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
- Charlotte Gray

39. Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.
- Paul Gray

40. There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
- Dan Greenberg

41. Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
- Dan Greenberg

42. Women and cats will do as they please; and, men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein

43. Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
- Robert A. Heinlein

44. One cat just leads to another.
- Ernest Hemingway

45. The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind.
- Alexis F. Hope

46. It doesn’t do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don’t respect you for it.
- Susan Howatch

47. The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
- E. W. Howe

48. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

49. Cats are rather delicate creatures, and they are subject to a good many ailments; but, I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

50. The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson

51. No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

52. Never try to outstubborn a cat.
- Lazarus Long

53. If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
- J. A. McIntosh

54. God made the cat in order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
- Fernand Mery

55. With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?
- Fernand Mery

56. A dog will flatter you, but you have to flatter the cat.
- George Mikes

57. Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
- Susanne Millen

58. The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.
- Lady Sydney Morgan

59. The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
- Ogden Nash

60. Cats do care. For example, they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.
- Michael Nelson

61. 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 about the house with a saintly expression.
- Beverly Nichols

62. A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
- Hazel Nicholson

63. Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
- Andre Norton

64. Cats conspire to keep us at arm’s length.
- Frank Perkins

65. I don’t think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it’s the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place.
- Debbie Peterson

66. A cat pours his body on the floor like water.
- William Lyon Phelps

67. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
- Edgar Allan Poe

68. If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.
- Nan Porter

69. Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won’t attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling.
- Helen Powers

70. Style. Beauty. Grace. That’s what matters. If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.
- Terry Pratchett

71. In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
- Terry Pratchett

72. A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
- Agnes Repplier

73. People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
- Faith Resnick

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
- Compton MacKenzie

74. A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.
- Judith Merkle Riley

75. The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.
- Jules Renard

76. Never wear anything that panics the cat.
- P.J. O’Rourke

77. The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
- Saki

78. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer

79. 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

80. There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
- Christopher Smart

81. It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
- Adlai Stevenson

82. Dogs eat. Cats dine.
- Ann Taylor

83. One is never sure—watching two cats washing each other—whether it’s affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.
- Helen Thomson

84. A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
- Henry David Thoreau

85. Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a worn out coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
- Irving Townsend

86. Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
- Sophie Tunnel

87. 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

88. If animals could speak, the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow; but, the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
- Mark Twain

89. I simply can’t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.
- Mark Twain

90. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore, either.
- Mark Twain

91. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- Jeff Valdez

92. The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
- Carl van Vechten

93. The cat seldom interferes with other people’s rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
- Carl van Vechten

94. It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
- Cynthia E. Varnado

95. The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci

96. You own a dog, but you feed a cat.
- Jenny de Vries

97. One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do.
- Barbara Webster

98. Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: When fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
- John Weitz

99. If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but, if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead

100. Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
- George Will

CONCLUSION

I was not fortunate enough to have kittens or cats for very long when I was growing up, mostly due to my mom’s superstitious fear of them. It’s my dream to get a kitten and a puppy and raise them together when I am finally ready to retire and also start a garden. Then, the four of us (including my boyfriend) can all play together in our lovely little garden! If you have any favorite cat stories or quotes that you would like to share, please do so in the comments below!

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