Theophile Gautier Quotes

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

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

I'm a cat, and you have to earn my trust.

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

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

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

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

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 - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

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

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 is nobody's fool.

I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

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

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

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.