370 Quotes About Cats and Kittens

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.

Augustin-Paradis de Moncrif

Cats' names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

Alan Ayckborn

In many respects, cats are more like men and women than dogs; they have moods, and their nature is complex.

Helen Winslow

Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous system.

Helen Winslow

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him FitzWilliam.

Josh Billings

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.

Sarah Thompson

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. It comes no doubt from their being too familiar with warlocks and witches.

Sir Walter Scott

A cat who dislikes his name can — and I am reliably informed, often does — go through his entire lifetime without ever, even by a careless mistake, acknowledging that he has ever heard it before, let alone recognizing, in any perceptible manner known to humankind, that it could in any way have any possible connection with him.

Cleveland Amory

The naming of cats is an almost infallible guide to the degree of affection bestowed on a cat. Perhaps not affection so much as true appreciation of feline character. You may be reasonably sure when you meet a cat called Ginger or merely Puss that his or her owner has insufficient respect for his cat. Such plebeian and unimaginative names are not given to cats by true cat-lovers.

Michael Joseph

You get your cat and you call him Thomas or George, as the case may be. So far, so good. Then one morning you wake up and find six kittens in the hat-box and you have to reopen the matter, approaching it from an entirely different angle.

P.G. Wodehouse

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Pierre Loti

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