Ernest Hemingway Quotes

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Cats will always lie soft.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Cats like men are flatterers.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress.

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

For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy. Now, if the eyes are nice and soft and brown, then it's calm. You can see these things in horses and cattle, and I think that some of these people are just really good at picking up these signals, but they don't realize it.

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

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.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.