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Another 100 cat related quotes for your enjoyment

Quotes part 1

“The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.” – Agnes Repplier

“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

“Cats are like potato chips – it's hard to have just one.” – Sandra Charon

“The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.” – Pam Brown

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience.” – Michael Stevens

“The smallest kitten only needs a week to be in full possession of a house and its owners.” – Pam Brown

“It occurs to me that I can't remember ever reading about a murderer who gave house room to, or was fond of, a cat.” – P D James

“Every cat is special in its own way.” – Sara Jane Clark

“‘Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. ‘I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.'” – Orson Scott Card

“The extraordinary thing about any cat is the effect it has on its owner.” – Peter Gethers

“His attitude seemed to be, how can anyone not love a cat?” – Vicki Myron

“By the time my key hits the lock I hear the soft press of paws on the other side of the door.” – Gwen Cooper

“A cat chooses its owner, not the other way around.” – Helen Brown

“We have three cats. It's like having children, but there's no tuition involved.” – Ronald Reagan

“Tall, dark and handsome was hot. Tall, dark, and handsome with a nestled kitten? Atomic.” – Chloe Neill

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a lot of ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” – Joseph Wood Krutch

“If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.” – Unknown

“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.” – Marge Percy

“It is good to be a cynic – it is better to be a contented cat – and it is best not to exist at all.” – H P Lovecraft

“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.” – W C Fields

“All cats love a cushioned couch.” – Jacques Adert

“I named my kitten Rose – fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.” – Astrid Alauda

“Kittens learn early to listen intently when someone calls them – and do absolutely nothing.” – Pam Brown

“I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them.” – Douglas Adams

“Getting a cat is a greater commitment than getting married.” – Seymour Chwast and Paula Scher

You loving me and me loving you.” – Marchette Chute

“If I tried to tell you how much I love my cats, you wouldn't believe me.” – Lexie Saige

“It isn't always easy being a father to a cat.” – B L Diamond

“A house without a cat, how empty!” – Bertrand Vac

“Cats are living adornments.” – Edwin Lent

“The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.” – Robert Brault

“Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?” – Marie Leczinska

“A sleeping cat is ever alert.” – Fred Schwab

“Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.” – Lillian Jackson Braun

“The cat is the mirror of his human's mind.” – Winifred Carriere

“People become fixated on cats. They turn into cat people. They think about their cats, talk obsessively about their cats, worry about their cats – and write about them.” – Charles Elliott

“Cats are the sentinels of the invisible.” – Louis Velle

“All kittens, from the very first, set out to teach their humans to adapt to the needs of a cat. As a reward, they grant them the position of honorary cat.” – Pam Brown

“A cat's name may tell you more about its owners than it does about the cat.” – Linda W Lewis

“Everyone who owns a cat is a cat-watcher.” – Roger Caras

“When you are a cat, you are the one that goes alone and for which all paths are identical.” – Jacques Roubaud

“Everyone on this planet loves cats. Whoever does not like them is an alien.” – Jim Davis

“People who love cats love their independence because this is what ensures their freedom.” – Annie Duperey

“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” – Jules Reynard

“Cat names give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.” – Alan Ayckbourn

“A cat is a living work of art.” – Patricia Highsmith

“You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you.” – Helen Powers

“Never wear anything that panics the cat.” – P J O'Rourke

“To err is human, to purr is feline.” – Robert Byrne

“Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them.” – William H A Carr

“I really am a cat transformed into a woman.” – Brigitte Bardot

Quotes part 2

“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” – Jules Reynard

“To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique.” – Jenny De Vries

“The cat has a prophetic spirit and ancient Egyptians were right in honouring it.” – Pierre de Ronsard

“A cat can purr its way out of anything.” – Donna McCrohan

“You put quite a fight for a tame kitty.” – Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

“Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length.” – Frank Perkins

“All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past.” – Neil Gaiman

“The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience.” – Susan Easterly

“Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries.” – Lesley Anne Ivory

“The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience.” – Susan Easterly

“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.” – Sir Walter Scott

“Everyone's pet is the most outstanding.” – Jean Cocteau

“If cats could talk, they would lie to you.” – Bob Kopack

“A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.” – Yakaoka Genrin

“I was only a small child when the seeds of cat enchantment were sown within me.” – May Eustace

“A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.” – Jenny de Vries

“I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.” – Guy Pearce

“Deep down, the cat is cat. That's what makes him so beautiful.” – Didier Hallepee

“The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.” – Robert K Massie

“When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed.” – Alisha Everett

“Could the purr be anything but contemplative?” – Irving Townsend

“Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.” – Andre Norton

“People who love cats sometimes do have excessive confidence in intuition.” – Annie Duperey

“She had other friends – friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.” – Jacqueline West

“A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.” – Robert Southey

“Loving cats is to be on the right side once and for all, it is abolishing the old superstitions, it is rehabilitating the heretics.” – Louis Nucera

“Mad Cat Man is a less widely reported phenomenon than Mad Cat Lady, but I am here to tell you that he exists.” – Tom Cox

“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.” – Eleanor Farjeon

“All kittens are cute until they grow up and become ugly.” – Jim Davis, Garfield

“When I first meet a cat, I want to pet them.” – Jackson Galaxy

“I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.” – Amy Lee

“Maybe you can't change the whole world, but you can change the world for one cat.” – Dusty Rainbolt

“I don't mind a cat, in its place. But its place is not right in the middle of my back at 4am.” – Maynard Good Stoddard

“Because his long, white whiskers tickled, I began every day laughing.” – Janet F Faure

“Never pick up a stray kitten… unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.” – Robert A Heinlein

“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.” – Oliver Herford

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

“Other people's stories about their cats can be as tedious as stories about their children.” – Sidney Denham

“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.” – Hazel Nicholson

“Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.” – Agnes Repplier

“Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.” – Stephen Baker

“For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see…” – H P Lovecraft

“Cat people are different to the extent that they generally are non-conformists. How could they be otherwise with a cat running their lives?” – Louis Camuti

“There are beauties that are beyond words. Cats belong to this order.” – Louis Nucera

“Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did…Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.” – Michelle Tea

“I cannot deny that the cat lover and his cat have a master/slave relationship. The cat is the master.” – Arthur R Kassin

“A cat brings you gifts: half a lizard, an eviscerated squirrel, but she means well.” – Leonore Fleischer

“The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind.” – Terri Guillemets

“She loves the smell of his fur, all warm and musky and cat-spit clean.” – Sara Stark

“Cats are smart and aware of it.” – Tomi Ungerer

“My boyfriend said it was him or the cat…I miss him sometimes.” – Unknown

This is our first collection of cat related quotes for your enjoyment

Cat Quotes part 1

“If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.” – Theophile Gautier

“I love cats. I even think we have one at home.” – Edward L Burlingame

“What greater gift than the love of a cat?” – Charles Dickens

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” – Jeff Valdez

“With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.” – Louis Camuti

“While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh.” – Rita Mae Brown

“If I prefer cats to dogs, this is because there is no police cat.” – Jean Cocteau

“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.” – L M Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“If the dog embodies action, the cat is rather a symbol of reflection.” – Marie-Luce Hubert

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

“Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.” – James Gorman

“A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend.” – Robert J Vogel

“The cat is a character of being, the dog is a character of doing.” – Michael Rosen

“Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?” – Robert Stearns

“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” – Unknown

“You can tell your cat anything and he'll still love you. If you lose your job or your best friend, your cat will think no less of you.” – Helen Powers

“Even cats grow lonely and anxious.” – Mason Cooley

“Cats cooperate, dogs perform.” – Brad Thompson

“What do we get if we remove half the brain of a cat? An intelligent dog!” – Jim Davis

“Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.” – Helen M Winslow

“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

“I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.” – Nafisa Joseph

“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.” – Lilian Jackson Braun

“You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same.” – Jack Wright

“Cats are like potato chips – it's hard to have just one.” – Sandra Charon

“A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me… They must be Gods! A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me… I must be a God!” – Ira Lewis

“When choosing a pet, remember that a dog will consider you as his family, and a cat as a domestic.” – Ron Dentinger

“You own a dog but you feed a cat.” – Jenny de Vries

“The cat is for those who care little for demonstrative affection, and much more for the subtle intimacies of spirit.” – Frank Swinnerton

“Books. Cats. Life is good.” – Edward Gorey

“There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.” – Carl Van Vechten

“Dogs are farmers and farmers' animals, cats are gentlemen and gentlemen's animals.” – Howard P Lovecraft

“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.” – Jeff Valdez

“The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat.” – Charles J Brady

“The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The Cat's beauty is classical while the Dog's is gothic.” – Howard Lovecraft

“You can tell a dog to do something. You can put it to a cat as a reasonable proposition.” – Michael Stevens

“With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colors. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.” – Louis A Camuti

“I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.” – Gemma Arterton

“The Cat's beauty is classical while the Dog's is gothic.” – Howard Lovecraft

“Puss on the hearth with velvet paws, sits wiping o'er his whiskered jaws.” – Erasmus Darwin

“I had at least a hundred cats, or rather, as Michelet said, a hundred cats got me.” – Paul Morand

“One must love a cat on its own terms.” – Paul Gray

“There's nothing like the company of a cat. Your cat is a loyal friend, a warm sleeping-buddy, a playmate, a confidant, a presence… Cats bring joy and delight to everyday life. Stroking a cat can even lower your blood pressure.” – Wendy Christensen

“Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.” – Eleanor Clark

“You need to get yourself a proper dog. Any dog under 50 pounds is a cat and cats are pointless” – Ron Swanson

“Cats will outsmart dogs every time.” – John Grogan

“You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.” – Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway

“A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.”- George Mikes

“There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball.” – David C Holley, Write Like No One is Reading

“The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone; but the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.” – H G Wells

“People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.” – Deborah A. Edwards

“A cat is rarely enthusiastic. A dog is, too often. A man, too.” – Claude Roy

“Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.” – W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

“Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and worn. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath looks like a collection of knitting mistakes.” – Eric Gurney

“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.” – Ursula Andress

“A dog is like a liberal, he wants to please everybody. A cat doesn't really need to know that everybody loves him.” – William Kunstler

Cat Quotes part 2

“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.” – Jeanette Winterson

“Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.” – Vicki Brown

“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” – Tay Hohoff

“Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.” – Oliver Gaspirtz

“Dogs are farmers and farmers' animals, cats are gentlemen and gentlemen's animals.” – Howard P Lovecraft

“Apparently, the cat sees it as a point of honor to be of no use at all, this does not prevent him from claiming a better place at home than the dog.” – Michel Tournier

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” – Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

“I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room.” – Rodney Dangerfield

“A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.” – Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor

“Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively.” – Roni Schotter

“When you are a cat, you are a cat. When you are a cat you are not a dog.” – Jacques Roubaud

“Some people own cats and go on leading normal lives.” – Unknown

“Dogs come when they're called. Cats take the message and call you back.” – Mary Bly

“I love in the cat that independent and most ungrateful temper which prevents it from attaching itself to anyone; the indifference with which it passes from the salon to the housetop.” – Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

“When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.” – Oliver Gaspirtz

“I figured we all started out as cats, but then the world put us on a leash and collar and turned us into dogs.” – Unknown

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill

“The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by.” – Unknown

“I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.” – Haruki Murakami

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” – Christopher Hitchens

“Cats are cleverer than dogs. Throw a ball for a cat and she'll expect you to have it biked back.” – Jasmine Birtles

“We entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger and equal because he wishes to be there.” – HP Lovecraft

“There is something about the presence of a cat… that seems to take the bite out of being alone.” – Louis Camuti

“You own a dog but you feed a cat.” – Barbara Webster

“The cat cleans her face with a look of delight.” – John Clare

“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of failing to write anything.” – Dan Greenberg

“When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed… she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.” – Leonore Fleisher

“Dogs own space and cats own time.” – Nicola Griffith, Hild

“When choosing a pet, remember that a dog will consider you as his family, and a cat as a domestic.” – Ron Dentinger

“I don't understand people who don't touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.” – Jarod Kintz

“Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot-water bottles that don't go cold.” – Suzanne Millen

“Cats are like shoes – you need them in a lot of colors.” – Mari Skelly

“Poets generally love cats – because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.” – Marion Garretty

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A Heinlein

“We entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger and equal because he wishes to be there.” – H P Lovecraft

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

“Dogs eat. Cats dine.” – Ann Taylor

“Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.” – Paula Poundstone

“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.” – Desmond Morris

“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 many.” – Mark Twain

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

“A cat does not want all the world to love her – only those she has chosen to love.” – Helen Thomson

“Most cats enjoy kneading – digging their claws into rugs, fabrics or human arms and legs. It exercises certain muscles, but I think they do it for fun, too.” – Lloyd Alexander

“…I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.” – Trisha McCagh

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

“His friendship is not easily won but it is something worth having.” – Michael Joseph

“If you throw a ball to a dog, he will run and catch it. But this is not what a cat will do.” – Jim Davis

“Two people meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.” – Charlotte Gray

“People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.” – Susan Easterly

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” – Robertson Davies

“I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.” – Jacqueline Bisset

“For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.” – Susanna Clarke

“Every dog has his day – but nights belong to cats.” – Unknown

“If you can remember how many cats you have, you don't have enough.” – Unknown

“I live for my cats. They are my only joy, my only pleasure in life. I do my utmost for them.” – Agatha Christie

“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.” – James Gorman