Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

Even silence speaks.

Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of perpetual entitlement, they will jump up and insinuate themselves wherever they please--on your lap, on your newspaper, on your computer keyboard--and they really couldn't care less how their behavior affects the people in their lives. I've had boyfriends like this; who needs such behavior in a housepet?

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.

Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

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

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

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

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

Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

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

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.