Thomas Harris Quotes

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

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.

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.

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

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog