Neil Gaiman Quotes

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

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.

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

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

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

Cats will always lie soft.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

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.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

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

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

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.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

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

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.

Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.

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.