Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.