“Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.” CertainIndividualDifficultCatAppreciationDeceptionInsultShyRetiringPossessedSuggestionsFathomTriflingCapriciousHaughty Author:Pierre Loti
“It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.” AirApproachCatAssumingWinterDelightfulFurOpulenceSumptuous Author:Pierre Loti
“If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.” IfsWritingSometimesHumanityLinesChanceAnimalCatSeekingProtectionKneesPensStrokesCaressPawsTenors Author:Pierre Loti