T. S. Eliot Quotes

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

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

Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something

Cats talk to whomever they please.

I'm a cat, and you have to earn my trust.

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

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.

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

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

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

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

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.

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 aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.