Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

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

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

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

Cats like men are flatterers.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

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

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

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

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

Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.