The Quotable Cat Lover (Quotable)
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Book Description
Here is a discriminating selection of the most pithy, profound, and humorous statements on record about “the tiger on the hearth.”
“No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.” --Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“One cat just leads to another.” --Ernest Hemingway
“Cats invented self-esteem.” --Erma Bombeck
Judging from the amount of thought devoted over the centuries to figuring out what goes through their furry little heads, it is probably safe to say that cats fascinate more human beings than any member of the animal kingdom, with the possible exception of dogs, horses, and other human beings,” begins this delightful collection. Charles Elliott has created a cat book of a different color, sifting through the multitude of writings about felines to include only those quotes “made memorable by their seriousness, humor, perceptiveness or ingenuity.” Here is an unexpectedly wide range of writers and personalities. There are classic sayings from:
Elizabeth Bishop * Erma Bombeck * Lewis Carroll Geoffrey Chaucer * William Churchill * Colette George Eliot * James Herriott * P. D. James Rudyard Kipling * Doris Lessing * Herman Melville Nancy Mitford * Damon Runyon * Mark Twain John Updike * H. G. Wells * And many more
From the Back Cover
The Quotable Cat Lover is a discriminating selection of the most pithy, profound, and humorous statements on record about 'the tiger on the hearth.' Judging from the amount of thought devoted over the centuries to figuring out what goes through their furry little heads, it is clear that cats fascinate us. In this delightful collection, Charles Elliott reveals an unexpectedly wide range of writers and personalities whom, it turns out, have been cat-people (or sometimes cat-haters, but there's room for them too), including: Roy Blount, Jr., Noel Coward, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Morrow Lindburgh, Camille Paglia, Beatrix Potter, William Shakespeare, P. G. Wodehouse, and many more. Entertaining and decorated with lovely illustrations, this is the perfect book to read with a cat curled up on one's lap: the perfect gift for any feline fancier. (5 7/8 X 6 7/8, 276 pages, illustrations)
The Quotable Cat Lover (Quotable),Charles Elliott,The Lyons Press,155821996X,Animals,Cats,Cats - General,Pets,Quotations,Quotations, maxims, etc,Collections & anthologies of various literary forms,Nature / Cats
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