Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. — Cats

"A cat which dares to scratch me while were at peace, no matter how many times it may then caress me, shall never be allowed to be close enough to me to scratch me again."

"... In Wales the cat was held in great estimation. It was enacted by , "the Good," that the price of a kitten before it could see was to be a penny; if it caught a mouse, its value was raised to twopence, and afterwards to fourpence. If any one stole or killed a cat that guarded the princes , the offender was compelled either to forfeit a ewe, or as much wheat as would cover the cat when suspended by its tail."

"The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on quite another stage than our own, and we only enter into it as subordinate characters, as stage managers, or rather stage carpenters."

"Le chat ne nous caresse pas, il se caresse à nous."

"A cat is the ideal literary companion. A wife, I am sure, cannot compare except to her disadvantage. A dog is out of the question. It may do at a butchers – it would be out of place in a booksellers. A cat for a bookseller is a different creature temperamentally from the same animal at a fishmongers or a bakers. In these shops the cat is a useful animal – I suppose it is employed to eat fish entrails or to keep down rats and mice – but in my shop its function is that of a familiar. It is at once decorative – contemplative – philosophical, and it begets in me great calm and contentment."

"I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if theres a saucer of milk in it for them."