Catty Quotes

"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

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this; a dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish." ~James Goreman

"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

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." ~Mary Bly

"If a dog jumps into 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." ~A.N. Whitehead

"With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" ~Fernand Mery, in Her Majesty the Cat

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

"You own a dog, but you feed a cat." ~Jenny De Vries

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." ~Hippolyte Taine

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." ~Unknown

"When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?" ~Montaigne

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer." ~Paula Poundstone

"When you are looking, a cat acts like a princess, but the minute they think you are not looking, a cat acts like a fool." K.C. Buffington

"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

"The cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do." ~Bill Alder

"You can keep a dog, but it is the cat who keeps people because cats find humans useful domestic animals." ~George Mikes

"One must love a cat on its own terms." ~Paul Gray

"A meow massages the heart." ~Stuart McMillan

"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

"Most cats, when they are out want to be in, and visa versa, and often simultaneously." ~Louis J. Camuti