# Quotes about cats - Quotes: 11 - Authors: 4 - Broader topic: [Quotes about animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats ## Quotes > — Mrkgnao! the cat said loudly. > > She blinked up out of her avid shameclosing eyes, mewing plaintively and long, showing him her milkwhite teeth. He watched the dark eyeslits narrowing with greed till her eyes were green stones. Then he went to the dresser, took the jug Hanlon's milkman had just filled for him, poured warmbubbled milk on a saucer and set it slowly on the floor. > > — Gurrhr! she cried, running to lap. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/mrkgnao-the-cat.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/our-garden-was.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/consider-the-situation.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/boot-faced-cats-arent.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/everyones-heard-of-erwin.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/cats-dont-hunt.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/its-an-interesting.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Unadulterated Cat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-unadulterated-cat/next-comes-the.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [A Tramp Abroad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-tramp-abroad.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-tramp-abroad/you-may-say.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md) > [...] cats, [...] wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves so marvellously with our civilization while retaining all their highly developed feral instincts. [Saki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki.md) · [The Complete Short Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories.md) · spoken by Mr. Appin · The Chronicles of Clovis · Tobermory · p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/cats-wonderful-creatures-which-have-assimilated.md) Topics: [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md), [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md) > [...] if you want a lesson in elaborate artificiality, just watch the studied unconcern of a Persian cat entering a crowded salon, and then go and practise it for a fortnight. [Saki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki.md) · [The Complete Short Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories.md) · spoken by The Duchess Irene · Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saki/the-complete-short-stories/if-you-want.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md)