Marjane Satrapi Quotes

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.

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

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 are hard to train, but they can train them.

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

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

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

Cats will always lie soft.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

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

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Cats like men are flatterers.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.