The Black Cat Quotes

#1. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." ~ 'The Black Cat.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him."
The black cat paused and looked me over.
"No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.

S.E. Hinton

#3. The black cat began to wash its face

Neil Gaiman

#4. Bobby spotted the black cat lying on a windowsill, sunning itself. They both walked over to it. Bobby tentatively reached out and rubbed his hands across the cat's belly. The cat purred. "Nice," the cat said dreamily. Bobby whipped his hand back.

D.J. MacHale

#5. Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

Muhammad Ali

#6. The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

Kirk Hammett

#7. Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

Al Capone

#8. I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

Jennifer McMahon

#9. A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,
Ou va-ti mistigri?
Passe sans faire de mai ici.

Joanne Harris

#10. With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

Arundhati Roy

#11. Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear

Kentaro Yabuki

#12. Death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the realtime universe.

Terry Pratchett

#13. The night was as black as the inside of a cat.

Terry Pratchett

#14. When a black cat crosses your path, follow it. Understand the knowable unknown.

Lionel Suggs

#15. Men are incomprehensible assholes," I said to Amelia.
"NO shit," she said. "When I was searching for Bob today, I found a female cat in the woods with kittens. And guess what? They were all black-and-white.

Charlaine Harris

#16. In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Terry Eagleton

#17. I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

Jan Struther

#18. I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th,
With black cats and Haley's Comet,
Blazin' blunts in my driveway ...

Redman

#19. I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.

George W. Bush

#20. When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

Harold Monro

#21. Night crawled across the desert sky like a black cat with phosphorus dandruff.

Christopher Moore

#22. I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says.
"No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

Holly Black

#23. If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Groucho Marx

#24. The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black.

Eugene Marten

#25. Minky, the littlest cat, look as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail where the snow didn't melt either.

Anne Michaels

#26. Phury nodded. And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.

J.R. Ward

#27. Shaking my head, I watched the cat run under the van and stare at us with black
eyes. I wasn't a cat person. They always seemed like they were secretly plotting
the destruction of the human race. And despite the cutesy name Zoe had given it,
this one struck me as slightly evil.

Erin Lynn

#28. And the Lady's mate. Despite having only two legs and small fangs, there was much that was feline in that one, and he approved.

Anne Bishop

#29. A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume ...

Amy Lowell

#30. Angela Montgomery was in the hall, shadows and her own long black hair wrapping around her. Ash could see only her face, which gave the impression that she was a beautiful human Cheshire cat, come not to smile but to look deeply disdainful of everything.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#31. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Laurence J. Peter

#32. People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down! -Sven to Torneo

Kentaro Yabuki

#33. Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.

Rhi Etzweiler

#34. We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality ... the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.

Henry Louis Gates

#35. A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture?

Anno Nomius

#36. I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

Robin Hobb

#37. My cat, Ethel, is an indoor cat but somehow she's sneakin' out at night. 'Cause the other morning I found a stamp on her paw ... I wouldn't have noticed myself, but I just bought this new black light and she passed right under it and I said, 'Hey, what's that on you paw?

Ellen DeGeneres

#38. Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#39. I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

Deng Xiaoping

#40. A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.

Heather O'Neill

#41. She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#42. Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark's closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. I'm off to make war, so that you may have love.

Zechariah Barrett

#43. The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Confucius

#44. I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.

Karen Marie Moning

#45. His little black-and-white cat with the black-and-white wings would fly through the rooms sometimes, but most often it would be discovered sleeping somewhere where it was most inconvenient for it to sleep. And

Michael Moorcock

#46. Oh I get it...You're looking for the quickest way to the hospital, huh?
~Train Heartnet

Kentaro Yabuki

#47. Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

Penelope Cruz

#48. Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

Lemony Snicket

#49. To remind me, pain is the best teacher

Holly Black

#50. As Deng Xiaoping once said, "I don't care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." The Stoics had their own reminder: "Don't go expecting Plato's Republic." Because

Ryan Holiday

#51. Sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path so I had to go the long way.

Masashi Kishimoto

#52. Is that vodka?' Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up from its chair in indignation. 'Excuse me, your majesty,' he squeaked, 'do you think I would give vodka to a lady? That is pure spirit!

Mihail Bulhakov

#53. If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Lauren Groff

#54. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

Holly Black

#55. Good to see a youngster who appreciates the importance of being......Well Armed. But...That's not how we play TAG......Where I come from.
~Train Heartnet

Kentaro Yabuki

#56. The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.

Norman Macbeth

#57. At dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door ...

John Geddes

#58. The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Kitty Burns Florey

#59. Then the fire was shining on the hearth, the cold and the dark and the wild beasts were all shut out, and Jack the brindle bulldog and Black Susan the cat lay blinking at the flames in the fireplace. Ma sat in her rocking chair, sewing by the light

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#60. Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen.

George R R Martin

#61. The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet

Kentaro Yabuki

#62. I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

Hilarie Burton

#63. Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.

Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.

Anthea Carson