cats quotes

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

- Sir Kingsley Amis
  Take A Girl LikeYou, ch.5.

A lotta cats copy theMona Lisa, but peoplestill lineupto see the original.

- Louis known as Satchmo Armstrong
Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.

- Robert Browning
  Dramatic Lyrics,'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'.

   My veins are filled onceaweek with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

-JohnWilliam Cheever
  On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth,10 May.

   The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well mortised and finely laid; He was the master of his trade It curiously builded; The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slats, Is covered with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded.

- Michael Drayton
  Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy.

The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  Brave New World, ch.5.

Catsandmonkeysmonkeysand catsall humanlifeis there!

- Henry James
  The Madonna of the Future, vol.1. The News of the World took'All human life is there'as its slogan from the late1950s.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

-JosephWood Krutch
  The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

   The evil inthisworld iscommitted by thespiritual fatcats who think that they are without sin because theyare unwilling to suffer the discomfort of significant self- examination.

- M(organ) Scott Peck
  What Return Can I Make?

The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and different skies, And night with different stars.

-Vita (Victoria Mary) Sackville-West
  'The Greater Cats with Golden Eyes'.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.

- A(rthur) S(eymour) J(ohn) Tessimond
'Cats', pt.2.