Cat Quotes (Author First Names E to I)

A selection of famous, memorable, and noteworthy quotes about our feline friends (Quotes are organized by the Author’s first name).

 

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“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”

Elizabeth Peters
American Author

“As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.”

Ellen Perry Berkley
American Author

“Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world – the clock and the cat.”

Emile Auguste Chartier
French Philosopher and Journalist
(1868-1951)

 

“The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world’s free souls.”

Eric Gurney
Canadian/American Illustrator
(1910-1992)

 

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

Ernest Hemingway
American Author and Journalist
(1889-1961)

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.”

Ernest Menaul

“Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?”

Fernand Mery
French Veterinarian
(1897-1983)

“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
French Veterinarian
(1897-1983)

 

“God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.”

Fernand Mery
French Veterinarian
(1897-1983)

“Cats conspire to keep us at arm’s length.”

Frank Perkins
British Engineer and Businessman
(1889-1967)

“Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner.”

Gary Smith

 

“Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.”

George F. Will
American Writer

“The phrase “domestic cat” is an oxymoron.”

George F. Will
American Writer

 

“Four little Persians, but only one looked in my direction. I extended a tentative finger and two soft paws clung to it. There was a contented sound of purring, I suspect on both our parts.”

George Freedley
First curator of the New York
Public Library’s Theatre Collection

“I would gladly change places with any of my cats.”

George Ney

“The smart cat doesn’t let on that he is.”

H.G Frommer

 

“Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything.”

Hank Ketcham
American Cartoonist
(1920-2001)

“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
American Fit Model and
Technical Consultant

“A cat is nobody’s fool.”

Heywood Broun
American Journalist
(1888-1939)

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

Hippolyte Taine
French Critic and Historian
(1828-1939)

“I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”

Hippolyte Taine
French Critic and Historian
(1828-1939)

 

“Each one of our cats is a distinct, four-footed little person with an individual personality.”

Ira B. Rubin
(1921-2010)

“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
American Record Producer and Author
(1920-1981)

 

“It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.”

Irving Townsend
American Record Producer and Author
(1920-1981)

“No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.”

Irving Townsend
American Record Producer and Author
(1920-1981)

 


 

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