Cats Vs Dogs Quotes

“Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.”
― Mary Bly

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs

“Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.”
― Jeff Valdez

“The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”
― Jeff Valdez

“Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.”
― Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor

“The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs

“The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs

“Dogs kind of default to making friends unless provoked. Cats seem to default to making enemies unless convinced otherwise.”
― Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick, The 12 Cats of Christmas

“Last time I saw her, she was peeking out from one of the bookcases next to the fireplace. She's the first cat I've ever seen trying to pretend she's a condensed version of War and Peace.”
― Ellen Hart, Hallowed Murder

“I wonder if I brought my Silly-cat in…could you tell me what she’s thinking?’
‘I can tell you what she’s thinking right now, no touching necessary,’ I drawled. ‘She’s thinking if she were three times her size, she would eat you.’ …Every cat that was awake when I’d smoothed its fur with a bare hand thought that. Every cat I touched that was asleep dreamed that.”
― Rob Thurman, All Seeing Eye

“We were talking about cats and dogs the other day and decided that both have consciences but the dog, being an honest, humble person, always has a bad one, but the cat is a Pharisee and always has a good one. When he sits and stares you out of countenance he is thanking God that he is not as these dogs, or these humans, or even as these other cats!”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady

“No two dogs are alike. And yet, all dogs have something in common that makes them dogs, and makes them different from cats. The same goes for men and women. The trouble starts when cats don't realize that dogs are different. Dogs think differently, and perceive the world differently, than cats do. I'm a dog. You're a cat. And a dog knows better what it's like to be a dog than a cat does.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends: Honest Relationship Advice for Women

“Oh, that's right. Missy opens doors.”
― Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick, The 12 Cats of Christmas

“Heald did not understand cats. All his life he had been a dog person, naturally averse to cats due to his allergies. Many of the women that he knew in the city had cats. It couldn’t be as simple as men being “dog people” and women being “cat people”; he knew that was too one- dimensional. Maybe something about cats’ apprehensive and complicated nature drew women to adore them, sensing a mirrored personality that had to be appreciated, or at the very least, respected. Dogs, with their fanatical, uncomplicated, and singular devotion, were everything a man could ever ask for.”
― Michael A. Ferro, TITLE 13: A Novel

“Dreadfully insincere,' said Angus. 'Psychopaths - every one of them. Show me a cat, Domenica, and I'll show you a psychopath. Textbook examples.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Bertie Plays the Blues

“Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“I'm not crying, all right? I just have problems with corneal discharge.”
― Thomas Corfield

“Acting jealous was wrong, and Kat felt happy with her life...even if she wished she could brag about how she saved lives and defeated an evil genius today. Sometimes, having a secret identity stunk.”
― Austin Stack, Kat Doggers: Superspy: Book 1 of the Kat Doggers Series

“Diana did not care for dogs--too noisy, too energetic, and too smelly. She rather liked the idea of acquiring a cat at some point, though--she admired their lazy grace, as well as their ability to force everyone around them to do their bidding. It was a skill she was constantly trying to hone in herself.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“Pet Haunts by Stewart Stafford

Ghosts pinned my cat to the wall,
So I reached out to pick him up,
In the strangest flip to our world,
They then turned him into a pup!

Spectres floated my pet downstairs,
Confused as he hovered on a step,
Species-fluid doppelgänger mirage,
Without moans or chains to schlepp.

Dare we dig into this canine tale,
Let me lick myself clean and think,
Corporeal companions, some not,
We all link up as one past the brink.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford