John Steinbeck Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, Dog, Humor

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

• Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

  John Steinbeck

  Cat, Animal, Monkeys

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.72, Penguin

• It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Cat, Different

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.201, Penguin

• But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

  John Steinbeck

  Cat, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

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