Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Cats will always lie soft.

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

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.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

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

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

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

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

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

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

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

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.

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.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

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.

I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

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

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.