Grace Elliot > Quotes

“Irish of three hundred years ago, who thought that to kill a cat brought seventeen years bad luck. A”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“THE END”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“I’ve had a cats’ meat round in the City and …so I’m a man of independent means.’ ‘What,’ cried the magistrate, ‘You’ve made a fortune out of cats’ meat?’ ‘Yes,’ said Meatman Cractchitt, ‘Funny isn’t it.”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“Which brings us back to that perfect cat food–mice! It seems cats really do know what’s best for them, and modern science is only just catching up. Recent studies of feral hunting cats showed they had a low incidence of that common feline problem, urinary tract disorders, including cystitis.”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“Just one kiss, to prove he could conquer this weakness. For who is stronger, the man with no weakness, or the weak man who overcomes?”
― Grace Elliot, Hope's Betrayal

“the Chief of Staff had a healthy respect for Napoleon. In fact the General is quoted as saying, “I don’t know why but that little b*****d scares me.”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“folklore held that a cat would avenge his killer by bewitching the culprit and causing him to waste away, develop the gestures of a cat, mew and die a slow horrible death. The”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“Billy his fingers through his bristly hair, straightening the blue checked neckerchief that pronounced him a packman, assembling a ready smile.”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“staged a mocking ceremony of this superstition by filling a wicker dummy of the Pope with cats, which they threw onto a bonfire. The”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“Billy heard the throbbing purr before he saw Kitty, stretched on her side with a line of perfect silver striped kittens kneading at her flank.”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia

“Billy puffed up his chest and with a flourish flashed three copper coins in his palm. ‘Rent money.”
― Grace Elliot, Cat Pies: Feline Historical Trivia