Quotes with cats

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  • Jean Cocteau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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  • R. Brooke Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Derek Wall At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.
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  • Robertson Davies Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Bette Midler Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?''
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Henry James Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Camille Paglia Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Agatha Christie He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
    Source: Murder for Christmas (1939)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Sir William Watson His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Winston Churchill I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Raymond Chandler I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Norman Mailer I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sagan If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage - to make it the tool of our survival.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Aldous Huxley If you want to write, keep cats.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Terry Pratchett In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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