What a purrfect way to pass a few minutes – sitting back and enjoying our ten favourite quotes about our feline friends.These quotes are about cats, but are anything but catty: many of the writers featured below are fully paid-up ailurophiles, or cat-lovers.
‘Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.’ – Robertson Davies
‘When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.’ – Mark Twain
‘I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is so remarkable a cat as My Cat.’ – T. S. Eliot (letter to his godson, 1931)
‘Little one, I would like to see anyone — prophet, king or God — persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?’ – Montaigne
‘If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.’ – Doris Lessing
‘Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.’ – Terry Pratchett
‘I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there’s a saucer of milk in it for them.’ – Douglas Adams
‘How we behave toward cats here below determines our place in heaven.’ – Robert Heinlein
‘A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.’ – Ernest Hemingway
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I love cats.
Thank you to everyone for the comments on this post, which was a great deal of fun to compile! Perhaps we should do a post on pictures of ‘Interesting Literature’s readers and their cats’ in the future? :)
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There are not enough cats on the internetz.
I don’t currently have a cat, but that’s mainly because I do have a rabbit, and I fear the two may not mix well … at least not so far as the rabbit is concerned.
Wonderful list of quotes. I am definitely a cat person. There is not one in my life right now, for the first time in about 45 years. A piece of me seems to be missing somewhere.
This one was a unique funny post, like all of them don´t get me wrong all the posts are interesting and informative but cats and authors? That was a unique mix. No wonder I don´t get published if I have to monster dogs. Getting rid of them now and buying a cat, maybe luck will change.
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TS Eliot, my cat is better than your cat. Read all about it http://decodomino.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/moomins-arent-just-for-christmas/
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Happy Caturday folks!
Reblogged this on Lavender Reflections and commented:
I love cats for they are amazing creatures
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I don’t think it is a coincidence that witches had a cat as their muse and sidekick. They cast their spells and so do writers. Interesting literature is indeed interesting.
Being an ailurophile, I absolutely adored this post!
These are great! There’s plenty about dogs too. Writers seem to have an interesting affinity with animals…
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the book shelf. Thanks for this.
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I just found this from interestingliterature.com and being a writer and having a cat I just had to reblog this one, enjoy.
I was about to say that I agree with Mark Twain’s quote, until I realize that I must now acknowledge Ernest Hemingway as a comrade and friend. That is a step beyond.
I also love T.S. Eliot’s quote, because everyone’s cat is remarkable. :)
Indeed–Mr Twain certainly loved cats, especially kittens. Who would have thought the king of quip could be so bemused by wit of cat.
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All true
And yet do we ever hear praise for the pet rabbit? Or is it just stuff about their chewing the buttons off the remote?
Reblogged this on A Bringer of New Things and commented:
Great cat quotes from great writers—oh yeah.
I was going to pick out a favorite to name, but really, I can’t!
I love this is very much! :)
Cats don’t have owners. They have staff.
Great! Poebus would have something to say about all of these! ;-)
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Marvellous. I loved Lessing’s ‘ diagram and pattern of subtle air’, though the patterns and diagrams of subtle air I share my space with, having been fed, are strangely becalmed at the moment!
Loved it ! Everyone one of them is so TRUE !!!
Just to expand your collection:
Come my beautiful cat, rest on my amorous heart.
Restrain the sharp claws of your passage;
I will plunge into the hearth
Where your agate eyes burn with savage
Metal… (Charles Baudelaire)
Beautiful quotes!
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Loved this, especially the first one. Thanks Interesting Literature for the original.
Brilliant. Had to reblog this.
It’s just a cat kind of week, isn’t it? Buzzfeed has up “The 100 most important Cat pictures of all time” as well. http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/best-cat-pictures
And though I’m not a cat-picture lover, both your quotes here and the hilarious and highly educated commentary there got me smiling! Thanks!
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Who could not like this?
Reblogged this on Mistrz i Małgorzata and commented:
Koty,koty,koty…..
Wonderful quotes. I read them to my cat, and he agrees with all of them.
I have to admit I am not a cat person . . . But I loved your cat quotes! Just what I needed on a gloomy, rainy Friday. Thx
SHOCK! Is this the end of a beautiful friendship Erich? And surely, you aren’t suggesting that the pictures weren’t as lovable as the quotes?
Hate to admit this, but I’ll take a pithy cat quote over a cute cat picture any day of the week.
Thanks for this collection! Hard to say which one I like the best. Can’t pick just one.
Another great Terry Pratchett quote about cats.
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Reblogged from Interesting Literature. As an aside, I have a refrigerator magnet that says, “Cats are like potato chips. You can’t have just one.”
I needed to see this post today :)
WONDERFUL :)
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I Love cats!