Domestic Cat Quotes

#1. The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

George Will

#2. The domestic cat is a bit of a contradiction. It freely accepts human friendship while never allowing even the most contented life to dim its sense of who it is and what it is capable of.

Ellen Dugan

#3. Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Joanne Harris

#4. No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

William E. Conway Jr.

#5. I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure.

Yann Martel

#6. Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Julie Burchill

#7. The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Loneliness is amplified when everyone you know is busy talking to everyone but you.

N.K. Smith

#9. The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Humans, with the arrogance of a supposedly superior species (tell that to your cat!), expect domestic animals to fit into their lifestyle. They bring cats into their homes and expect them to follow a human timetable and human rules.

Celia Haddon

#11. The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

Francis Galton

#12. The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

William Lyon Phelps

#13. Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

Joseph Epstein

#15. The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends ...

Hector Hugh Munro

#16. As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermost in their minds, but though they talked of outside matters, they understood each other.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons, he thought sadly, sometimes words could be just as hurtful, and just as forbidden.

Violet Haberdasher

#18. Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat ... it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.

Dan Simmons

#19. The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Compton Mackenzie

#20. Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.

Caroline Paul

#21. Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.

Ka Chinery

#22. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. A

Adriana Trigiani

#23. You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

George Mikes