Animal Quotes

@kittehboi curates animal-related quotes.

  • Quote: Mikhail Bulgakov on Cats

    “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

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  • 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

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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

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  • Quote: Oliver Herford On Cats

    I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows greyAre Angel Kittens who have lost their way,And every Bulrush on the river bankA Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.— Oliver Herford, The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten

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  • Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Dogs

    An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.— Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • 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 huntwritten long before the first house was built.― Elyria

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  • 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

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  • Quote: Napoleon Bonaparte on Horses

    You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.— Napoleon Bonaparte

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