Aldous Huxley Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Novelists

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• If you want to write, keep cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Want

• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

• No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cat, Men, Wife

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Cat, Voice

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Sleep, Cat

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

• Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cat, Thinking, Symphony

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