200+ Cat Quotes for People Who Love Cats

If you love cats, then you’re going to have fun reading the following cat quotes from different authors.

You can use these cat motivational quotes as captions for your furbaby before posting them on social media.

Have a look through this inspirational cat quotes collection if you need a line that goes beyond a short, standard message.

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200+ Cat Quotes

1. Cat Lover Quotes

Here are some timeless quotes about cats and cat quotes love that capture the deep bond we share with these mysterious creatures.

• “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer
• “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau
• “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” – Colette
• “What greater gift than the love of a cat.” – Charles Dickens
• “I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.” – Eckhart Tolle
• “Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat.” – Mark Twain
• “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “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
• “There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” – Tay Hohoff
• “If you want to write, keep cats.” – Aldous Huxley
• “I wish I could write as mysteriously as a cat.” – Edgar Allan Poe
• “One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.” – Pam Brown
• “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.” – Agnes Repplier
• “The cat is a guest, not a prisoner.” – Paul Corey
• “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
• “When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.” – Mark Twain
• “If there were no cats, I would not be a writer.” – E.B. White
• “If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.” – Eugen Weber
• “The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same.” – Italo Calvino
• “The cat is a lion in miniature.” – E.V. Lucas
• “A house isn’t a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet.” – L.M. Montgomery
• “The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.” – William S. Burroughs
• “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
• “Cats are wiser than we are, for they know how to live.” – P.C. Cast
• “If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.” – J.A. McIntosh
• “The cat is a dilettante in fur.” – Théophile Gautier
• “In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” – English Proverb
• “The cat is above all things, a dramatist.” – Margaret Benson
• “I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people.” – Agnes Varda
• “I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats… and books.” – Julio Cortázar
• “Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.” – Robertson Davies
• “By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.” – Colette
• “The cat is the companion of the fireside.” – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
• “A cat is an animal that has more space in its head than in its brain.” – H. H. Munro (Saki)

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2. Cute Cat Quotes

Here are some kitty cat quotes that you can consider when describing the cute moments. People looking for some short quotes about cats can also find plenty here.

• “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau
• “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.” – Cynthia E. Vernado
• “The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.” – Ogden Nash
• “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” – Jules Renard
• “Kittens are angels with whiskers.” – Alexis Flora Hope
• “A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.” – Robert Southey
• “But the Kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws, and darts!” – William Wordsworth
• “A cat is an adorable violation of the laws of physics.” – Terri Guillemets
• “An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.” – Carl Van Vechten
• “There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.” – Jules Champfleury
• “A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.” – Jules Champfleury
• “Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality.” – H. P. Lovecraft
• “Cats are always elegant.” – John Weitz
• “He could not take his eyes off her. What a delightful creature! What exquisite coloring!” – Cleveland Amory
• “I like cats. When I meet a cat, I say, ‘Poor Pussy!’ and stoop down and tickle the side of its head.” – Jerome K. Jerome

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3. Black Cat Quotes

A video of your black cats with accompanying black cat sayings is all you need to create the perfect Instagram reel. Check out these:

• “The little black cat with bright green eyes / Is suddenly purring there.” – Harold Monro
• “We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” – Neil Gaiman (Spoken by the black cat in Coraline)
• “A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock.” – Amy Lowell
• “Pluto – this was the cat’s name – was my favorite pet and playmate. I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever I went.” – Edgar Allan Poe
• “He was a huge cat, black as soot or a rook, and with desperate cavalry whiskers.” – Mikhail Bulgakov
• “Minnaloushe creeps through the grass / Alone, important and wise.” – W.B. Yeats
• “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.” – H.L. Mencken
• “Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men’s superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it’s a good cat.” – Deng Xiaoping
• “A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place your sight can knock on… but here within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze will be absorbed and utterly disappear.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
• “A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” – Groucho Marx

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4. Funny Cat Quotes

Not everything should be about seriousness; our feline friends love that comical side, too. Here are a few funny cat quotes to make your day.

• “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill
• “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.” – Christopher Hitchens
• “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – Garrison Keillor
• “No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” – Bill Dana
• “Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
• “A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain
• “Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.” – Steven Wright
• “‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.'” – Lewis Carroll
• “Never wear anything that panics the cat.” – P. J. O’Rourke
• “The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.” – W. C. Fields
• “God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” – Pablo Picasso
• “Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.” – Pam Brown
• “The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.” – Paula Poundstone
• “Dogs eat. Cats dine.” – Ann Taylor
• “One cat just leads to another.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “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
• “Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.” – Miguel de Cervantes
• “How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.” – Robert A. Heinlein
• “A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.” – George Mikes
• “I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.” – William Shakespeare
• “I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.” – Charles Baudelaire
• “The phrase ‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.” – George Will
• “The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games;” – T.S. Eliot
• “If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” – Mark Twain
• “Cats are designated friends.” – Norman Corwin
• “Cats find humans useful domestic animals.” – George Mikes
• “The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living.” – E.V. Lucas
• “Cats are not dogs.” – John Gray
• “If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.” – Pat Hitchcock
• “Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.” – Dan Greenburg
• “Of all the forms of life… the cat is the only one… that has solved the problem of food without labor.” – Mark Twain
• “A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.” – Delmore Schwartz

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5. Cat Mom Quotes

Being a pet parent is a full-time job. These cat mom quotes show what the relationship between a feline and her human parent mean.

• “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A. Heinlein
• “We have three cats. It’s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.” – Ron Reagan
• “Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” – Kristin Cast
• “A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” – Mason Cooley
• “As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.” – Ellen Perry Berkeley
• “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” – James Herriot
• “The key to a successful new relationship between a cat and human is patience.” – Susan Easterly
• “You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.” – George Mikes
• “Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.” – Louise A. Belcher
• “I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.” – Trisha McCagh
• “A cat is a guardian of the home.” – E.B. White

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6. Grumpy Cat Quotes

• “Cats rule the world.” – Jim Davis
• “You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, ‘What’s in it for me?'” – Lewis Grizzard
• “If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.” – Terry Pratchett
• “I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.” – Peter S. Beagle
• “Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you.” – Mary Bly
• “The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.” – Lynn M. Osband
• “Cats’ hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other.” – Stephen Baker
• “Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.” – Lillian Johnson
• “Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.” – Stephen Baker
• “Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.” – Eddie Izzard
• “People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.” – Sir Henry Morgan
• “The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.” – Saki (H.H. Munro)
• “A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.” – Théophile Gautier
• “The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.” – Doug Larson
• “A cat is nobody’s fool.” – Heywood Broun
• “Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.” – Paul Gray
• “A cat is the only creature that rules man, and deserves to.” – G.D. Griffiths
• “A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.” – V.A. Karr
• “A cat’s got her own opinion of human beings. She don’t say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the rest.” – Jerome K. Jerome

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7. Cat Motivational Quotes

Felines are resilient and unapologetic about their needs. Here are a few cat motivational quotes to help you live more like a cat.

• “Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.” – William S. Burroughs
• “I’ve met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.” – Rita Mae Brown
• “Never try to outstubborn a cat.” – Robert A. Heinlein
• “I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.” – Rudyard Kipling
• “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” – Jim Harrison
• “Cats will outsmart dogs every time.” – John Grogan
• “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.” – Gillian Flynn
• “One is permitted to assume an attitude of placid indifference… but in the matter of cats it seems necessary to take a firm stand.” – H. G. Wells
• “A cat has to be reminded that he is a cat.” – E.V. Lucas
• “My cat is not crazy, she’s just a ridiculously good actress.” – P.C. Cast
• “To err is human, to purr is feline.” – Robert Byrne
• “Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.” – Terry Pratchett
• “If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.” – Will Cuppy
• “The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.” – Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
• “A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.” – Louis J. Camuti
• “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.” – Eugene O’Neill
• “My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.” – William S. Burroughs
• “Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.” – Jean Burden
• “The cat is a creature of absolute convictions.” – E.V. Lucas
• “The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.” – Ernest Menault
• “The cat is a philosopher.” – E.V. Lucas
• “After all, cats are the only untamed pets that we have. You cannot tame a cat.” – May Sarton
• “The cat is something of a philosopher.” – William Ellis

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8. Orange Cat Quotes

Orange cats are known for being beautiful and having that tabby personality. Here are some orange cat quotes you can use to tag along your orange kitty on Instagram.

• “In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.” – Jim Davis
• “Macavity’s a ginger cat, he’s very tall and thin; You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.” – T.S. Eliot
• “A small ginger cat arrives on my terrace every afternoon, to curl up in the sun and slumber peacefully for a couple of hours.” – Ruskin Bond
• “I saw a sudden flash of ginger fur. Before I knew it, Bob had jumped up and plonked himself on the seat next to where I was sitting.” – James Bowen
• “I had a little ginger cat… He was the most polite creature, a real prince.” – Eugène Ionesco
• “There should always be a marmalade cat named Jock, with a white bib and four white socks, in comfortable residence at Chartwell.” – Winston Churchill
• “Ginger and Pickles (a terrier and a ginger cat) keep a very popular shop.” – Beatrix Potter
• “Find your place. Be happy with what you have… That was Dewey’s lesson.” – Vicki Myron (referencing Dewey, the famous orange library cat)
• “Fire alone can save our Clan.” – Erin Hunter (Prophecy regarding the ginger cat, Firestar)
• “I’m not overweight, I’m undertall.” – Jim Davis (Garfield)

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9. I Love My Cat Quotes

Sometimes you just need to say it out loud. These I love my cat quotes are simple declarations of affection for your companion.

• “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine
• “Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.” – Desmond Morris
• “You cannot share your life with a dog… or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and 3minds and feelings.” – Jane Goodall
• “I… think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.” – Charles Bukowski
• “A cat has beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, all the virtues of man without his vices.” – Lord Byron
• “It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.” – Eleanor Farjeon
• “A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.” – Hazel Nicholson
• “A cat doesn’t care if you are smart or dumb, tall or short, ugly or beautiful. He loves you for you, for your ability to open the refrigerator door.” – Roseanne Barr
• “I believe all animals were created by God to be loved, but that cats were created to be pampered.” – T. S. Eliot

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10. RIP Cat Quotes

Losing a pet is incredibly difficult. These cat angel quotes and ‘I lost my cat quotes’ bring that comfort when you are missing a friend who’s departed from our world.

• “I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” – Jules Verne
• “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett
• “Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.” – Andre Norton
• “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
• “The cat is the only animal… that has been taken into companionship by man without losing any of its pristine wildness.” – Konrad Lorenz
• “There are few perfect things in this world. A cat asleep is one of them.” – G.D. Griffiths

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11. Crazy Cat Lady Quotes

The following crazy cat lady quotes are for those of us who know you can never have too many feline friends at once.

• “You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.” – Jane Pauley
• “A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.” – William S. Burroughs
• “Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.” – Virginia Woolf
• “All day long the door of the subconscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.” – Walter de la Mare

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12. Meow Quotes

These meow quotes words and meow sayings can be sued when you want to show the lovely language our feline friends use to communicate with the universe.

• “‘Meow’ means ‘woof’ in cat.” – George Carlin
• “It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once remarked) that, whatever you say to them they always purr.” – Lewis Carroll
• “A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.” – William Ralph Inge
• As we tell the kittens, you can’t wash yourself and meow at the same time.” – Lloyd Alexander
• “It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.” – Adlai Stevenson
• “A meow massages the heart.” – Stuart McMillan

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Conclusion

We hope you have seen how these inspirational cat quotes can be used to describe your feline friend.

Aside from social media captions, you can also use these quotes to decorate a poster you made for your cat, or one you wish to gift a friend’s cat.

If these quotes have inspired or made you laugh, consider checking our other list of 90 heartwarming dog quotes to keep the fun going.