This article presents a curated collection of quotes about cats, celebrating their unique qualities and the joy they bring to our lives.
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Best quotes about cats
From the ancient Egyptians to modern-day internet sensations, cats have captured the hearts and imaginations of people around the world.
Their mysterious nature, playful antics, and independent spirit have inspired countless writers, poets,and philosophers to share their thoughts on these feline companions.
So let’s find out what they have to say. Here are some of the best cat quotes. Enjoy!
Quotes for cat lovers
These quotes reflect the deep connection between humans and cats. Discover heartwarming expressions of love, admiration, and gratitude for these furry friends who enrich our lives in countless ways.
1. What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Charles Dickens
2. I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot
3. Of all the things God created, from sunrises and rainbows, to black holes and humor, cats are the most fascinating to me.
Jarod Kintz
4. I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
5. Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George
6. I’ve found that the way a person feels about cats — and the way they feel about him or her in return — is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person’s character.
P.C. Cast
Quotes about cats being family
7. One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
Bobbie Ann Mason
8. A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey
Quotes about cats being best friends
9. The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal — or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
Elizabeth Peters
10. Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Terry Pratchett
Funny quotes about cats
Cats are known for their mischievous antics and quirky personalities. This section is filled with humorous quotes that highlight what its like to be part of a cat family.
1. Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
2. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
3. A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Mason Cooley
4. My cat is not insane, she’s just a really good actress.
P.C. Cast
5. When Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.
Seanan McGuire
6. The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now.
Lloyd Alexander
7. To err is human, to purr is feline.
Robert Byrne
8. In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
9. The cat is above all things, a dramatist.
Margaret Benson
10. I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Bill Dana
11. Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
Pam Brown
Cat lady quotes
12. You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
William S. Burroughs
13. A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Mark Twain
14. As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
Ellen Perry Berkeley
15. There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Dan Greenberg
16. Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
Neil Gaiman
About cats and dogs
17. Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
Mary Bly
18. Dogs own space and cats own time.
Nicola Griffith
19. If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Mark Twain
20. Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.
Lauren Myracle
21. Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.
W. Bruce Cameron
22. I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
L.M. Montgomery
23. Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher Hitchens
Short cat quotes for Instagram
Looking for the perfect caption for your latest cat photo? This section features a collection of short and sweet quotes about cats that are ideal for sharing on social media.
1. Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
James Herriot
2. Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Colette
3. Kittens are angels with whiskers.
Alexis Flora Hope
4. Dogs have their day but cats have 365.
Lilian Jackson Braun
5. Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
Sir Walter Scott
6. “Meow” means “woof” in cat.
George Carlin
7. Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
8. A meow massages the heart.
Stuart McMillan
9. I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.
Seanan McGuire
10. The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard
11. Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
Mason Cooley
12. I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.
Eckhart Tolle
Inspirational quotes about cats
This section offers uplifting quotes that celebrate the positive qualities of cats, such as their grace, independence, and resilience. Discover how cats can teach us valuable lessons about life and inspire us to live more fully.
1. Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
2. when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns
Charles Bukowski
3. As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the humankind.
Cleveland Amory
4. Cats have it all: admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen
5. I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
6. Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit.
Lloyd Alexander
7. I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
8. Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
Connie Willis
9. Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies
10. Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
About cats passing
11. No one can truly understand the bond we form with the cats we love until they experience the loss of one.
Unknown
12. Cats leave paw prints in your heart, forever and always.
Unknown
About cats sleeping
13. You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
Jane Pauley
About cats eyes
14. A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs
Famous quotes about cats
Many famous authors, poets, and philosophers have expressed their admiration for cats. This section features quotes from renowned figures who have shared their insights on the nature of cats and their impact on human lives.
1. No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
2. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston S. Churchill
3. The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
4. A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest Hemingway
5. The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.
George Will
6. I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
Neil Gaiman
7. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
From authors
8. It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
Lewis Carroll
9. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
William S. Burroughs
10. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
Ray Bradbury
11. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
Rudyard Kipling
12. Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, just look at the cats, you’ll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.
Charles Bukowski
13. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor
14. Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Mark Twain
We hope you enjoyed this list of quotes about cats and the joy, love, and inspiration they bring to our world.
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By Greg Johnson | Published 8/28/24
