“Is that vodka?” Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
“I beg pardon, my queen,” he rasped, “Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Category: Animal Quotes
Mr. Breeze
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Quote: Théophile Gautier on Cats
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you.
— Théophile Gautier, Ménagerie Intime
Quote: Lewis Carroll on Cats
And how do you know that you’re mad? “To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?” “I suppose so,” said Alice. “Well then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Quote: John Steinbeck on Cats
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Quote: Oliver Herford On Cats
I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
And every Bulrush on the river bank
A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.
— Oliver Herford, The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Quote: Elyria on Cats
In the small cathedral of muscle and instinct,
the hind limbs do not strike—they harvest.
Not in anger, but in memory of a hunt
written long before the first house was built.
― Elyria
Quote: H.P. Lovecraft on Cats
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Horses
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
