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  • Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.30, Courier Corporation
  • A cat is never vulgar.

    Cat   Vulgar  
    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.177, Courier Corporation
  • A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

    Boys   Forever  
    Carl Van Vechten (1920). “Interpreters”
  • The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

    Cat   Animal   Rights  
  • The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

    Mean   Cat   Animal  
    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

    Two   Long   People  
  • I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

    Matisse  
  • Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

    Cities   Paris   Care  
    Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
  • The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

  • ...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and confidence the relationship suffers. The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

    Cat   Men   Suffering  
    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.2, Courier Corporation
  • One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

    Art   Cat   Greek  
  • Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

    Littles   Pay   Too Much  
    Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
  • As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.279, Courier Corporation
  • Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

    Cat   World   Virtue  
  • Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

    Cat   Gnosis   Degrees  
    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.3, Courier Corporation
  • The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

    Cat   Men   Remember  
    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.2, Courier Corporation
  • Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

    Cat   Vodka   Whisky  
    Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.17, Courier Corporation
  • Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

    Cat   Breathing   Fur  
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