Guinevere thinks these quotations show that some members of the human species are refined enough and clever enough to have gained some understanding of the feline mind.
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
--E. V. Lucas
Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed?
It is better, under certain circumstances to be a cat than to be a duchess...no duchess of the realm ever had more faithful retainers or half so abject subjects.
--Helen M. Winslow
One is tabby with emerald eyes,
And a tail that's long and slender,
And into a temper she quickly flies
If you ever by chance offend her.
--Thomas Hood
Cats are always elegant.
--John Weitz
To gain the friendship of a cat is not an easy thing. It is...a creature of habit and a lover of order and cleanliness. It will consent to be your friend if you are worthy of the honor, but it will not be your slave.
--Théophile Gautier
The cat is never vulgar.
--Carl Van Vechten
The cat, like the genius, draws into itself as into a shell except in an atmosphere of congeniality, and this is the secret of its remarkable and elusive personality.
--Ida M. Mellen
Cats love one another so much--more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.
--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
His friendship is not easily won but is something worth having.
--Michael Joseph
Rapunzel's Favorites
Good food, a warm place to sleep, hugs and cuddles, a few toys to play with--these are the most important things in life, according to Rapunzel, which is why these quotations are appropriate.
At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they would say, "Time to feed the cat," as if it were their own idea.
--Lilian Jackson Braun
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
--W. L. George
There are some people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing, and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
--Allen and Ivy Dodd
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve for dealing with happiness overflow.
--Monica Edwards
She is a sprightly cat, hardly past her youth...she darts out a paw, and begins plucking it and inquiring into the matter, as if it were a challenge to play, or something lively enough to be eaten. What a graceful action of that foot of hers, between delicacy and petulance!--combining something of a thrust out, a beat and a scratch.
--Leigh Hunt
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.
--Sir Compton Mackenzie
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.
One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
--Cleveland Amory
He lies there, purring and dreaming, shifting his limbs now and then in an ecstasy of cushioned comfort. He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
--Saki
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
--Joan Asper McIntosh
Scarlett's Favorites
Scarlett thinks that these quotations apply to her pretty well, and she does want to say from firsthand experience that it is indeed extremely gratifying to catch one's tail.
Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
--Joseph Wood Krutch
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
The best exercise for a cat is another cat.
--Jo and Paul Loeb
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than an old one.
--Thomas Fuller
No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail.
--Rosalind Welcher
For push of nose, for perseverance, there is nothing to beat a cat.
--Emily Carr
She sights a Bird--she chuckles--
She flattens--then she crawls--
She runs without the look of feet--
Her eyes increase to Balls.
--Emily Dickinson
Balanchine has trained his cat to perform brilliant jetés and tours en l'air; he says that at last he has a body worth choreographing for.
--Bernard Taper
Dulcinea's Favorites
Dulcinea is a creature of mystery, a lady both elegant and edgy, with street smarts and well-honed survival skills. These quotations highlight the endless mystery of cats.
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
--Sir Walter Scott
He lives in the half-lights in secret places, free and alone--this mysterious little-great being whom his mistress calls "My cat."
--Margaret Benson
With a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers.
--Carl Van Vechten
Observe a cat entering a room for the first time: it searches and smells about...it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of all animals, he alone attains the Contemplative Life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. There is no pretense of sympathy about the cat. He lives alone, aloft, sublime, in a wise passiveness.
--Andrew Lang
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
--Sir Compton Mackenzie
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
Give her but a wavering leaf-shadow of a breeze combing the grasses and she was back a million years, glaring with night-lit eyes in the thickets, projecting a terrible aura of fear that stilled and quelled all creatures.
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