Nicole Hollander Quotes

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

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

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.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

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

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.

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

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

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

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

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

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

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

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

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.

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

If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain me. They are an important part of the fabric of my daily life.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

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

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.