Cat Quotes (Author First Names J to N)

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

 

A to DE to IJ to NO to Z


 

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”

James Herriot
British Veterinarian
(1916-1995)

“Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.”

James Mason
British Actor
(1901-1984)

“You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.”

Jane Pauley
American Television Journalist

 

“A cat allows you to sleep on the bed. On the edge.”

Jenny de Vries

 

“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

 

“Cats are successful underachievers. They only need to purr in order to get free food and TLC. What other creature can lay around the house doing nothing beyond purring, and still get free food and TLC?”

Jim Aites

 

“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.”

Jim Davis
American Cartoonist

 

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

Joan Asper McIntosh
American Author

 

“Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.”

John Weitz
American Fashion Designer
(1923-2002)

 

“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
American Writer, Critic,
and Naturalist
(1893-1970)

 

“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
American Writer, Critic,
and Naturalist
(1893-1970)

 

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

Jules Reynard
French Author
(1864-1910)

 

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”

Jules Verne
French Science Fiction Author
(1828-1905)

 

“When I raise a cat from kittenhood, it learns to read me so well that it can con me and predict what I’m going to do. A young adult cat doesn’t know what to expect from me and I don’t know what to expect from it, so we immediately have each other’s attention.”

Karl Lewis Miller
American Actor,
and Animal Trainer
(1941-2008)

 

“The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal…its also the reason they hate birds.”

KC Buffington

 

“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

 

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance Painter
(1452-1519)

 

“Cats are glorious creatures ~ who must on no accounts be underestimated… mysteries.”

From Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory

 

“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
American Author
(1913-2011)

 

“To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality.”

Lilian Jackson Braun
American Author
(1913-2011)

 

“Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.”

Lilian Jackson Braun
American Author
(1913-2011)

 

“If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. Independent as they are, cats find more than pleasure in our company.”

Lloyd Alexander
American Author
(1924-2007)

“Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun.”

Lloyd Alexander
American Author
(1924-2007)

 

“Who needs television when you have cats?”

Lori Spigelmyer

 

 

“Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.”

Louis J. Camuti DVM
American Veterinarian
(1893-1981)

 

“A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.”

Louis J. Camuti DVM
American Veterinarian
(1893-1981)

 

“Intelligence in the cat is underrated.”

Louis Wain
British Artist
(1860-1939)

 

“Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.”

Louise A Belcher

 

“Essentially, you do not so much teach your cat as bribe him.”

Lynn Hollyn
American Architect and Interior Designer

“Just as the would-be debutante will fret and fuss over every detail till all is perfect, so will the fastidious feline patiently toil until every whiskertip is in place.”

Lynn Hollyn
American Architect
and Interior Designer

“The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.”

Lynn M. Osband

 

“He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone – this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls ‘My cat.”

Margaret Benson
British Author
(1865-1916)

“The cat is above all things, a dramatist.”

Margaret Benson
British Author
(1865-1916)

 

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

Marion Garretty

 

“A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps; but how can it prove its title?”

Mark Twain
American Author
(1835-1910)

 

“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
American Author
(1835-1910)

 

“If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”

Mark Twain
American Author
(1835-1910)

 

“If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.”

Mark Twain
American Author
(1835-1910)

 

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”

Mark Twain
American Author
(1835-1910)

 

“A cat is more intelligent than people believe and can be taught any crime.”

Mark Twain
American Author
(1835-1910)

“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.”

Martin Buxbaum

 

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

May Sarton
German/American Poet,
Novelist, and Memoirist
(1912-1995)

 

“Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.”

Michael Nelson

 

“When a cat chooses to be friendly, it’s a big deal, because a cat is picky.”

Mike Deupree

 

“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 comical.”

Monica Edwards
British Children’s Writer
(1912-1998)

 

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

Montaigne
French Writer
(1533-1592)

 


 

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