@kittehboi curates animal-related quotes.
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Quote: Jeanette Winterson on Cats
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.— Jeanette Winterson, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?“
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The Black Dragon
The Uda tennō gyoki (宇多天皇御記) is the personal diary of Emperor Uda, the 59th emperor of Japan. It contains the oldest surviving written record of a pet cat in Japanese history. In a quiet hour, I find myself wishing to write about my cat. There is one black cat. Minamoto no Kuwashi brought him to…
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Quote: Garrison Keillor on Cats
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.— Garrison Keillor, “Lake Wobegon Days“
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Quote: John Heywood on Cats
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.— John Heywood, “A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue” [View online at UMich]
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Quote: Haruki Murakami on Cats
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).— Haruki Murakami, source unspecified.
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Quote: Jeff Valdez on Cats
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.— Jeff Valdez, source unspecified.
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Quote: George Sand on Cats
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.— George Sand, source unspecified.
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Quote: Emma Corrin on Cats
Cats do this thing with their faces where they’re so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they’re observing.— Emma Corrin, source unspecified.
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Quote: Joseph Wood Krutch on Cats
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.— Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year In The Desert Year, Joseph Wood Krutch explores the plants, animals, and changing seasons of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Look, the place may seem dry and empty, but it’s packed with…
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Quote: Paula Poundstone on Cats
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.— Paula Poundstone, source unspecified.
