91 Cat Quotes That Are Too Purrfect For Words

By Norbert Juma

Master quote curator and editor on a mission to inspire

Published April 16, 2023

To earn the love of a cat is like no other, and these cat quotes will speak right to your crazy cat lover heart.

Many people love cats.

According to figures by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), Americans own between 74 and 96 million cats.

That’s a huge number of people who love their feline friends.

Cat ownership has a number of benefits.

Being a cat owner can fulfill your need for companionship, lower your stress levels, boost your energy, and create positive emotions.

Owning a cat is one of the best ways of coping during difficult times.

They serve as a social support and can help you get over your loss of a loved one more quickly.

Besides, cats can keep you laughing with all the goofy things they do.

While cats need to be cared for like any other pet, they don’t need to consume much of your time.

Unlike dogs, cats don’t need to be bathed, walked, or regularly let outside.

Also, they are a relatively inexpensive companion that can fit in small spaces.

To remind you just how awesome they are, below is our collection of inspirational, cute, and loving cat quotes, cat sayings, and cat proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Enjoy!

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Cat Quotes That Are Too Perfect For Words

1. “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” — Jean Cocteau

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2. “A cat has beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, all the virtues of man without his vices.” – Lord Byron

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3. “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” — Charles Dickens

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4. “You can’t ever be a cat owner; in the best of cases it allows you to be their companion.” – Harry Swanson

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5. “When I feel bad I just look at my cats and my courage returns.” – Charles Bukowski (see more quotes from Bukowski)

6. “Cats are mysterious; they have more on their mind that we could never imagine.” – Walter Scott

7. “It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.” – Cynthia E. Varnado

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8. “My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.” — William S. Burroughs

9. “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” – Jules Renard

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10. “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer

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11. “Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” — Kristin Cast

12. “I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They’re really chill, and they’re loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.” – Camren Bicondova

13. “If a cat spoke, it would say things like ‘Hey, I don’t see the problem here.” – Roy Blount Jr.

14. “Respecting a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.” – Erasmus Darwin

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15. “Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.” — James Mason

16. “Cats have an absolute emotional honesty; humans, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but the cat, does not.” – Ernest Hemingway

17. “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” — Sigmund Freud

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18. “It is a very difficult task to earn a cat’s affection; they will be your friend if you feel that you are worthy of their friendship, but not your slave.” – Théophile Gautier

19. “The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now.” – Lloyd Alexander

20. “Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” – Mary Bly

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21. “That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” ― Ray Bradbury

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22. “Cats have it all: admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” – Rod McKuen

23. “Dogs look at us as their gods, horses as their peers, but the cats look to us as their subjects.” – Winston Churchill

24. “Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.” – Mason Cooley

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25. “I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” — Jules Verne

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26. “A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.” – Champfleury

27. “The cat is the only animal that has managed to tame man.” – Marce Mauss

28. “How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.” — Robert A. Heinlein

29. “Kittens are angels with whiskers.” – Alexis Flora Hope

30. “There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” – Tay Hohoff

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31. “It is good to have a lot of cats around. If you feel bad, you look at the cats and you feel better, because they know that things are as they are.” – Charles Bukowski

32. “My cat never laughs or complains, he is always reasoning.” – Miguel de Unamuno

33. “One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway

34. “Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.” — P.J. O’Rourke

35. “Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.” – William S. Burroughs

36. “There is truly not a single quality of the cat that man should not seek to emulate to improve.” – Carl van Vechten

37. “Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.” – Ilona Andrews

38. “The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.” – Paula Poundstone

39. “Cats, like men, are flatterers.” — Walter Savage Landor

40. “I’m not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they’re really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.” – Michael Showalter

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41. “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett

42. “Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain

43. “Just watching my cats can make me happy.” – Paula Cole

44. “A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” – Mason Cooley

45. “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A. Heinlein

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46. “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” — James Herriot

47. “I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” – Bill Dana

48. “Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.” – W. L. George

49. “God made the cat to offer men the pleasure of stroking a tiger.” – Francois Joseph Mery

50. “I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.” – James Herriot

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51. “Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” – Robertson Davies

52. “Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat’s chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.” – Haruki Murakami

53. “A cat can make you feel well rested when you’re tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.” – Shannon Hale

54. “Cats are marvelous creatures – they either adapt to circumstances or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way – they win.” – Will Advise

55. “Cats may walk by themselves, but there are times when they need our support.” – Dr. Nicholas Dodman

56. “Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end.” – Will Advise

57. “Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries.” – Deyth Banger

58. “Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

59. “Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.” – John Dingman

60. “Feeling the weight of a cat’s paws pressing into your shoulders in the middle of the night – not much beats that.” – Hiro Arikawa

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61. “The cat is above all things, a dramatist.” – Margaret Benson

62. “As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.” – Ellen Perry Berkeley

63. “Never try to outstubborn a cat.” – Robert A. Heinlein

64. “Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience.” – Pam Brown

65. “Dogs eat. Cats dine.” – Ann Taylor

66. “A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.” – Hazel Nicholson

67. “No home is complete without the pitter patter of kitty feet.” – Unknown

68. “If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.” – Nan Porter

69. “There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” – Tay Hohoff

70. “A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.” – Robert Sowthey

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71. “Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.” – Oswald Barron

72. “If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.” – Alfred North Whitehead

73. “Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.” – Dan Greenburg

74. “Some men are born to cats, others have cats thrust upon them.” – Gilbert Millstein

75. “For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.” – Susanna Clarke

76. “It has been the providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.” – Bidpai

77. “Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.” – Will Rogers

78. “I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.” – Eckhart Tolle

79. If you want to write, keep a cat.” – Aldous Huxley

80. “They say that the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?'” – Samuel Butler

Funny Cat Quotes That Will Make You Admire Cats

81. “Cats ask plainly for what they want.” ― Walter Savage Landor

82. “Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.” ― Charles Bukowski

83. “No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.” ― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

84. “My cat is not insane, she’s just a really good actress.” ― P.C. Cast

85. “Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.” ― Jonathon Scott Payne

86. “Black cat or white cat, it’s a good cat that catches mice.” ― Deng Xiaoping

87. “Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.” ― Lillian Jackson Braun

88. “My cat is always looking at me like I am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it.” ― Megan Boyle

89. “A cat can purr its way out of anything.” ― Donna McCrohan

90. “The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.” ― William S. Burroughs

91. “Be like the cat, so alive after the mouse, never wondering or questioning why, when there is really only God, only God…touching our paws.” — Rumi