The friendship between a cat and her owner is a very special one, but sometimes it might seem hard to put our affection into words.
We all know cats are amazing pets and we love them so dearly for their unique and quirky personalities. Cat’s are known throughout the world as having captivated the hearts of humans for generations.
That’s why we have created this ultimate list of over 170+ cat quotes! From famous cat quotes to inspirational cat quotes and funny cat quotes and sayings, we hope you will enjoy our list!
1. Famous cat quotes
2. Inspirational cat quotes
3. Funny cat quotes
4. Cute cat quotes
5. Cat loss quotes
Famous Cat Quotes
“I think we are all cats with nine lives, or even more. We must rejoice in our elusive catness.” – Joyce Carol Oates
In the book Coraline, when the Black Cat was asked its name: “Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” – author Neil Gaiman
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“Ladies don’t start fights, but they can finish them!” – Marie, one of Disney’s The Aristocats
“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” ― Colette
“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.” ― Elizabeth Peters
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” ― Robertson Davies
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.” ― Mark Twain
“My cat is not insane, she’s just a really good actress.” ― P.C. Cast, Untamed
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.” ― Pam Brown
“There are no ordinary cats.” ― Colette
“Cats have their day but cats have 365.” ― Lilian Jackson Braun
“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“How we behave towards cats here determines our status in heaven.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“I’ve found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person’s character.” ― P.C. Cast
“I’ve learned to take my cues from my #quarantinecats. And I’m better for it.” – Jackson Galaxy on Twitter
“To err is human, to purr is feline.” ― Robert Byrne
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” ― Hippolyte Taine
“You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.” ― William S. Burroughs
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” ― Jules Verne
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” ― Mark Twain
“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?” ― Michel de Montaigne
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.” ― Cleveland Amory
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?” ― Henry David Thoreau
“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.” ― L.M. Montgomery
“I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.” ― Rachel Hartman
“In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“Cats come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” ― Mary Bly
“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.” ― William S. Burroughs
“There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself.” ― Jarod Kintz
“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks
“If a cat spoke, it would say things like ‘Hey, I don’t see the problem here.” ― Roy Blount Jr.
“Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.” ― Terry Pratchett
“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” ― Mark Twain
“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.” ― Walter Scott
“I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one’s cheeks.” ― R.L. LaFevers
“Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.” ― Ilona Andrews
“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.” ― Eleanor Farjeon
“Of all the things God created, from sunrises and rainbows, to black holes and humor, cats are the most fascinating to me.” ― Jarod Kintz
“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.” ― Jean Burden
“We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.” ― Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
“It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.” ― Bruce Fogle
“The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.” ― Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty. Human beings may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway, as quoted in The New Yorker.
“Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.” ― Pam Brown
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat.” – Mark Twain, as quoted in Smithsonian Magazine
“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.” ― Eugen Weber
“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” ― Rod McKuen
“I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.” ― Jarod Kintz
“The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.” ― William Lyon Phelps
“God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger.” ― Francois Joseph Mery
“I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don’t laugh at you, they never contradict you, there’s no need to impress them, and they won’t divulge your secrets.” ― Elle Newmark
“If I knew everything, life would be lonely, as everyone else would want to explore the world, and I’d be content with a cat on my lap sitting in the dark.” ― Jarod Kintz
“Cats may walk by themselves, but there are times when they need our support.” ― Nicholas Dodman
“A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.” ― Robert Sowthey
“When a cat flatters … he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.” ― Walter Savage Landor
“A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.” ― Champfleury
“I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.” ― Trisha McCagh
“Cats ask plainly for what they want.” ― Walter Savage Landor
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.” ― William S. Burroughs
“One cat just leads to another.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.” ― Théophile Gautier
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.” ― Doris Lessing
“Love is like a blanket: it will keep you warm, but it might also suffocate you. Also, it’s probably covered with cat hair–love, I mean.” ― Jarod Kintz
“Cats, like men, are flatterers.” ― Walter Savage Landor
“One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.” ― Kelli Jae Baeli
“A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.” ― Roger A. Caras
“My cat will love you more than me. He won’t love you more than he loves me, but he will love you more than I love you.” ― Jarod Kintz
“The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.” ― Elizabeth Peters
“Sleeping, it’s what cats do best. It’s why they are my heroes.” ― Jarod Kintz
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing.” ― William S. Burroughs
“Cats own space and cats own time.” ― Nicola Griffith
“If you can love cats, you can love human beings, because you have to be able to love them without getting them at all.” ― Chris Kelly, Downton Tabby
“The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
“Purr more, hiss less.” ― Linda C. Marchman
“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
“The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” ― Hippolyte Taine
“I’ve found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person’s character.” ― P.C. Cast
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.” ― Heather Hacking
“I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.” ― Jael McHenry
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.” ― Mark Twain
“When the mouse laughs at the cat, there’s a hole nearby.” ― Nigerian Proverb
“There is no known cure for severe affection for one’s cat. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to go ahead and launch a kiss attack.” ― Tichakorn Khroopan Hill
“When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!” ― Mehmet Murat İldan
“A house isn’t a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.” ― L.M. Montgomery
“My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and cats are the crazy ones.” ― Dan Harmon
“No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.” ― Paul Gallico
“Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.” ― H. Allen Smith
“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.” ― Ursula Andress
“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute, and if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it.” ― William S. Burroughs
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” ― Mason Cooley
“The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes – cat lovers and the underprivileged.” ― David Taylor
“After all, a woman who doesn’t love cats is never going to be make a man happy.” ― Orhan Pamuk
“A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.” ― Charles M. Blow
“Don’t judge a cat by its coat.” ― Magdalena VandenBerg
“Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say.” ― Virginia Woolf
Inspirational Cat Quotes
“Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat’s personality is never bet on a human’s. He demands acceptance on his own terms.” – Lloyd Alexander
“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.” – W. L. George
“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” – Rod McKuen
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” – Jules Verne
“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” – Jim Davis
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway
Funny Cat Quotes
“The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.” – Paula Poundstone
“Can’t find your cat? Just open your laptop and he’ll magically appear!” – Unknown
“Share your mice with the world!” – Unknown
“Make like a cat and nap.” – Unknown
“What sport do cats excel at? Boxing!” – Unknown
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” – Bill Dana
“Only the fluffiest will survive!” – Unknown
“Cats are the ultimate lap warmers.” – Unknown
“When Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.” – Seanan McGuire
“Nothing says amor like a-purr!” – Unknown
“Toe beans are the best beans!” – Unknown
“Cats are nature’s way of telling us to bask in the sunlight and take a nap!” – Unknown
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.” – Pam Brown
“Make each meow-ment special.” – Unknown
“Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.” – Mason Cooley
“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” – Mary Bly
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the humankind.” – Cleveland Amory
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine
“Never let the laser get you down!” – Unknown
“I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.” – Nafisa Joseph
“I gave my cats a bath the other day … they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that…” – Steve Martin
“One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway
“No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.” – Leo Dworken
“The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.” – George Will
“Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner.” – Gary Smith
“There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.” – Dan Greenberg
“The trouble with sharing one’s bed with cats is that they’d rather sleep on you than beside you.” Pam Brown “A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.” – Anonymous
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” – Unknown
“Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.” – Michael Nelson
Cute Cat Quotes
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.” – Charles Dickens
“In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” – Unknown
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer“
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” – James Herriot
“Just watching my cats can make me happy.” – Paula Cole
“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
“You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.” – Jane Pauley
“The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.” – George Will
Cat Loss Quotes
“To make heaven the perfect resting place for the loved ones we adore, God made sure those Pearly Gates contained a kitty door.” – Unknown
“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.” – Neil Geiman
“One day all of the cats we ever loved will come running towards us and that day will be a good day.” – Unknown
“The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.” – Robert Brault
“The memories and paw print of a beloved cat remains in our hearts and soul forever.” – Unknown
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Mervin
“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.” – Anges Repplier
“It’s funny how…cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn’t it?” – Eleanor H. Porter
“No one can truly understand the bond that we form with the cats we love until they experience the loss of one.” – Unknown
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France
“To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget. Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.” – Cleveland Amory
“The people who say “it’s just a cat” do not understand, and it is I who feels bad.” – Unknown
“A home without a cat — and a well fed, well petted and properly revered cat — may be a home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” – Mark Twain
“If you have a cat, you will most likely outlive it. To get a cat is to open yourself u[p to profound joy and prospectively, to equally profound sadness.” – Unknown
“The loss of a cat is immeasurable. But so is the love that is left behind.” – Unknown
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway
“When the cat you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh
“Your favorite chair is empty now, where you would lie and sleep. But the memory of our happy times is mine to always keep.” – Unknown
“Heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me.” – Unknown
“May memories of love, and friendship maintain and comfort you in the loss of your beloved cat.” – Unknown
“Grief is so painfully real, regardless of its origin. The love of, and attachment to, an animal friend can equal that of human relationships. Likewise, the loss of an animal can be just as devastating.” – Pastor Joel Morgan
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – an Irish saying
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Khalil Gibran
“No amount of time will ever erase the memory of a good cat.” – Unknown
“Some angels don’t have wings, sometimes they have whiskers.” – Unknown
“When the cat you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
“No one can truly understand the bond we form with the cats we love until they experience the loss of one.” – Unknown
“The memories and paw print of a beloved cat remains in our heart and soul forever.” – Unknown
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr Suess
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