CatFacts™

A good cat of the kind seems almost aware of its own beauty; and we know that puss has the universal reputation of being proud.

The cat is a dreamer and a dramatist…

The lashed hound crawls back and licks the boot that kicked him, and so makes friends again.

The better bred a cat is the more easily it takes offence.

They are like sensitive plants, and shut themselves instinctively away from the human being who does not care for them.

It has long been observed that cats possess an uncanny ability to appear precisely where they are least wanted. Whether this constitutes intelligence remains a matter for further study.

The cat is not the dog: it does not give itself. It lends, it rents, it negotiates.

CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. This is a dog, This is a cat. This is a frog, This is a rat. Run, dog, mew, cat. Jump, frog, gnaw, rat.

The average Englishman prefers to have his knowledge well formulated… “that the cat, though eminently domestic, is selfish, egotistic, and luxurious; whereas the dog is generous, affectionate, and faithful”; that “cats care for places and not for people.”

There is nothing, however absurd or impossible in animal or everyday life, that some people are not ready to credit and believe.

A cat sitting upon a book is not preventing its owner from reading. It is conducting a peer review.

Now a cat has no sense of humour at all. Its very comedies are serious; and to tease it is to outrage its dignity.

The cat is a philosophical, methodical, quiet animal, tenacious of its own habits, fond of order and cleanliness, and it does not lightly confer its friendship.

A cat is a beautiful, luxury-loving, and proud animal, and it is impossible to give it an order with any expectation of its being obeyed.

...cats love people--in their dignified, reserved way, and when they feel that their love is not wasted; that they reason, and that they seldom act from impulse.

Is the cat even a domestic animal?

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

here are certain royalties whose religion cannot be chosen till they have grown up and it is decided whom they are to marry. The same with kittens' names.

A cat does not fall from a height. It conducts an unscheduled experiment in terrestrial acceleration.