Cat Quotes (Author First Names O to Z)
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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“A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.”
Pam Brown
Australian Poet
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
Pam Brown
Australian Poet
“The trouble with sharing one’s bed with cats is that they’d rather sleep on you than beside you.”
Pam Brown
Australian Poet
“The cat has always been associated with the moon. Like the moon it comes to life at night, escaping from humanity and wandering over housetops with its eyes beaming out through the darkness.”
Patricia Dale-Green
Cat Book Author
“In my next life, I’d like to come back as a cat.”
Patti J. Moran
Author, Pioneer of the
Pet-sitting Industry
“Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment., from “An Honourable Cat””
Paul Gallico
American Novelist
(1897-1976)
“If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen — sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.”
Pierre Loti
French Novelist,
and Naval Officer
(1850-1923)
“Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.”
Robert A Heinlein
American Science Fiction Author
(1907-1988)
“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.”
Robert A Heinlein
American Science Fiction Author
(1907-1988)
“There is no such thing as ‘just a cat’.”
Robert A Heinlein
American Science Fiction Author
(1907-1988)
“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
Robert Byrne
“Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace.”
Robert Stearns
Founder of Eagles’ Wings
“Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?”
Robert Stearns
Founder of Eagles’ Wings
“It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.”
Robley Wilson, Jr.
American Author
“Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.”
Roger Caras
American Wildlife Photographer
“The cat has been described as the most perfect animal, the acme of muscular perfection and the supreme example in the animal kingdom of the coordination of mind and muscle.”
Roseanne Ambrose-Brown
“Cats like doors left open–in case they change their minds.”
Rosemary Nisbet
“We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind. ”
St. George Mivart
British Biologist
(1827-1900)
“The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends…”
Saki (H. H. Munro)
British Author and Playwright
(1870-1916)
“Every cat is special in its own way.”
Sara Jane Clark
“For me, one of the pleasures of cats’ company is their devotion to bodily comfort.”
Sir Compton Mackenzie
Scottish Writer
(1883-1972)
“You can’t own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.”
Sir Harry Swanson
“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish Writer
(1771-1832)
“Cats’ hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.”
Stephen Baker
American Writer
“Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.”
Stephen Baker
American Writer
“Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.”
Stephen Baker
American Writer
“A meow massages the heart.”
Stuart McMillan
Member of the Scottish Parliament
“If a homeless cat could talk, it would probably say, ‘Give me shelter, food, companionship and love, and I will be yours for life!”
Susan Easterly
Cat Author
“People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around.”
Susan Easterly
Cat Author
“The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience.”
Susan Easterly
Cat Author
“The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn’t just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I’m mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.”
T.S Eliot
American/British Writer
(1888-1965)
“You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.”
T.S Eliot
American/British Writer
(1888-1965)
“There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.”
Tay Hohoff
Author of Cats and Other people
“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?” Death thought about it. “Cats,” he said eventually, “Cats are nice.” – Sourcery
Terry Pratchett
British Fantasy Novelist
“If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.”
Theophile Gautier
French Writer
(1811-1872)
“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!”
Theophile Gautier
French Writer
(1811-1872)
“A cat will assume the shape of its container.”
Unknown
“If God created man in his own image, you’ve got to wonder; in whose image did he create the nobler cat?”
Unknown
“If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich.”
Unknown
“If you yell at a cat, you’re the one who is making a fool of yourself.”
Unknown
“It’s really the cat’s house–we just pay the mortgage”
Unknown
“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.”
W.L George
British Writer
(1882-1926)
“Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor.”
Walter Chandoha
Feline Photographer
“In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.”
Warren Eckstein
American Pet Psychologist
“There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.”
Wesley Bates
Artist and Wood Engraver
“If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”
Will Cuppy
American Humorist
(1884-1949)
“Who hath a better friend than a cat?”
William Hardwin
“A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.”
William Lyon Phelps
American Author, Critic,
and Scholar
(1865-1943)
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”
William S. Burroughs
American Writer
(1914-1997)
“If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed.”
Winifred Carriere
American Author and Publisher
(1912-2002)
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