T. S. Eliot Quotes

A cat is nobody's fool.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

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.

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

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.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

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.

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

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

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

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur.

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.

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

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.

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.