There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
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.
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.