Cat Psychology Quotes

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

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.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

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.

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

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

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

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

My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

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

You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.