Quotes About Cats

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Cats and Kittens

Quotations & Citations:

 

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

~Tay Hohoff

 

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

~Cynthia E. Varnado

 

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

 

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.

~Nan Porter

 

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

~Mark Twain

 

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

~Doug Larson

 

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

~Paula Poundstone

 

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

~Pam Brown

 

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

~J.A. McIntosh

 

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

~Susan Howatch

 

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

~Jean Burden

 

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

 

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

~Jules Champfleury

 

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

 

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

~Edgar Allan Poe

 

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

~Jules Reynard

 

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

~Italo Calvino

 

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

~Lemony Snicket

 

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

~Terry Pratchett

 

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

~Charles Dickens

 

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.

~T.S. Eliot

 

People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.

~Faith Resnick

 

Kittens are angels with whiskers.

~Alexis Flora Hope

 

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

~Jenny de Vries

 

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

~Author Unknown

 

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

~Hippolyte Taine