Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

Cats will always lie soft.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

No favor can win gratitude from 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.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.