T. S. Eliot Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

  T. S. Eliot

  Holiday, Cat, Thinking

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 1 (1939)

• Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

• When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Wind, Pet

  "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses".

• With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Thinking, Doors

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

• Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Thinking, Names

• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Cat, Ideas

  John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931”, p.628, Faber & Faber

• With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

• Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dog, Cat

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

  T. S. Eliot

  Dog, Memories, Cat

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Profound

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 25 (1939)

• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Cat, Remarkable

  John Haffenden, T.S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (2014). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931”, p.628, Faber & Faber

• Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Pie

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.216, Faber & Faber

• I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Stripes

  T. S. Eliot, “The Old Gumbie Cat”

• The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, House, Want

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: with illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown”, p.18, Faber & Faber

• The naming of cats is a difficult matter

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Matter, Difficult

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 1 (1939)

• You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Like You, Enough

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.32, Faber & Faber

• Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat

  'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' (1939) 'Macavity: the Mystery Cat'

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