Agnes Repplier Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• 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

  Cat, Giving, Pet

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Rushing, Mad

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

• Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sleep, Cat, Sky

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Men, Vanity

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

  Agnes Repplier

  Hate, Cat, Race

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

• The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Circles, Secret

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

• The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Cat

• A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

• whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Distance, Cat

• the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Tea, Sound

• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

• Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Cat, Adults

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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