Kittens Quotes

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck.

"Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly."

A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left.

"There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat

“The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.”
― Robert Sowthey

“May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens.

"Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

“Plans make dreams reality.”
― Susan Pace-Koch, Get Out Of My Head, I Should Go To Bed

“We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, two drugstore tuna-fish sandwiches, then a movie she wanted to see, something with Greer Garson in it. I looked at her several times in the dark when Greer Garson’s son’s plane was missing in action. Her mouth was opened. Absorbed, worried. The identification with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tragedy complete. I felt awe and happiness. How I love and need her undiscriminating heart. She looked over at me when the children in the picture brought in the kitten to show to their mother. M. loved the kitten and wanted me to love it. Even in the dark, I could sense that she felt the usual estrangement from me when I don’t automatically love what she loves. Later, when we were having a drink at the station, she asked me if I didn’t think that kitten was ‘rather nice.’ She doesn’t use the word ‘cute’ any more. When did I ever frighten her out of her normal vocabulary? Bore that I am, I mentioned R. H. Blyth’s definition of sentimentality: that we are being sentimental when we give to a thing more tenderness than God gives to it. I said (sententiously?) that God undoubtedly loves kittens, but not, in all probability, with Technicolor bootees on their paws. He leaves that creative touch to script writers. M. thought this over, seemed to agree with me, but the ‘knowledge’ wasn’t too very welcome. She sat stirring her drink and feeling unclose to me. She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn’t as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.”
― Champfleury, The Cat Past And Present

“The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.”
― Doris Lessing, On Cats

“I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.”
― Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Cat on the Money

“Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

“I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
And every Bulrush on the river bank
A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.”
― Oliver Herford, The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten

“Purr more, hiss less”
― Linda C. Marchman

“His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his closet door to discover that Zap the Cat, having penetrated the security of Vorkosigan House through Miles's quisling cook, had made a nest on the floor among his boots and fallen clothing to have kittens. Six of them.
Zap ignored his threats about the dire consequences of attacking an Imperial Auditor, and purred and growled from the dimness in her usual schizophrenic fashion. Miles gathered his nerve and rescued his best boots and House uniform, at a cost of some high Vor blood, and sent them downstairs for a hasty cleaning by the overworked Armsman Pym. The Countess, delighted as ever to find her biological empire increasing, came in thoughtfully bearing a cat-gourmet tray prepared by Ma Kosti that Miles would have had no hesitation in eating for his own breakfast. In the general chaos of the morning, however, he had to go down to the kitchen and scrounge his meal. The Countess sat on the floor and cooed into his closet for a good half-hour, and not only escaped laceration, but managed to pick up, sex, and name the whole batch of little squirming furballs before tearing herself away to hurry and dress.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“At evening when the lamp is lit,
The tired Human People sit
And doze, or turn with solemn looks
The speckled pages of their books.

Then I, the Dangerous Kitten, prowl
And in the Shadows softly growl,
And roam about the farthest floor
Where Kitten never trod before.

And, crouching in the jungle damp,
I watch the Human Hunter’s camp,
Ready to spring with fearful roar
As soon as I shall hear them snore.

And then with stealthy tread I crawl
Into the dark and trackless hall,
Where 'neath the Hat-tree's shadows deep
Umbrellas fold their wings and sleep.

A cuckoo calls — and to their dens
The People climb like frightened hens,
And I'm alone — and no one cares
In Darkest Africa — downstairs.”
― Oliver Herford, The Kitten's Garden of Verses

“When I grow up I mean to be
A Lion large and fierce to see.
I'll mew so loud that Cook in fright
Will give me all the cream in sight.
And anyone who dares to say
'Poor Puss' to me will rue the day.
Then having swallowed him I'll creep
Into the Guest Room Bed to sleep.”
― Oliver Herford, The Kitten's Garden of Verses

“Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have ever seen."

"Japanese kitten,
Put your tongue back in where it belongs
And go away.
I know exactly what you are thinking.”
― Paul Gallico, Honorable Cat

“There’s no such thing as free kittens.”
― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

“Yesterday I went fishing for kittens, and I caught two ducks. They were shaped like Helen Keller's WhistleLisps, so that's probably why they got tangled up in my net.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“I’m not a kitten. I know how to climb a tree.”
“So do kittens.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Did I keep you awake?”
“No. Your cat turned into a furry ninja, determined to claim my face as its ultimate resting spot,” I said and then laughed. “I finally surrendered and let the lil’ monster win. I guess I can add ‘professional cat pillow’ to my resume now.”
“Sorry. He’s done that since he was a kitten.”
― Kayla Cunningham

“I don't know why my mother insisted on giving us two of Jezebel's kittens as a housewarming gift. Who is going to watch them?"
"Not a problem. Oded already offered. And they're Juju's kittens too."
"Exactly," he says with a shudder.
"Well, Keanu is adorable and Katniss is---"
"Trouble. I caught her climbing the curtains the other day.”
― Samantha Verant, The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique

“Kittens are lively as the days of spring. They make everybody happy.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Her voice was really faint like she was about to fall asleep. “Is this what heaven is like? Kittens everywhere?”
― Anastasia Ryan

“Her voice was really faint like she was about to fall asleep. “Is this what heaven is like? Kittens everywhere?”
― Anastasia Ryan, You Should Smile More

“How strange it is that some of us want to go to the party, and some do not want to go. Some of us can go, and some cannot go.

I am one who wants to go, and I am one who cannot go.

I have a sick head. It aches. Perhaps I caught too many mice last night.

The doctor has been here. He told me to take this medicine every half-hour.

How I wish I could go to the party!

They surely will have something good to eat there, but I must stay at home and take my medicine.”
― Eulalie Osgood Grover, Kittens and Cats: A First Reader

“He leans over the bed and peers at the lump in Annabel's arms.
"When do her eyes open?"
"I didn't give birth to a kitten, Richard. Her eyes have already opened. She's asleep.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Kittens are as lively as the days of spring. They make everybody happy.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya