William Shakespeare Quotes

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

William Shakespeare

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• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

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• I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

  

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• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• A cat only has itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

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• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  

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• Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

  

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• There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

  

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• There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

  

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• You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.

  

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• I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.

  

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• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.

  

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• When the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.

  

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• He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange backyard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.

  

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• He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.

  

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• I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

  

  Ned Beauman
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• Christians came from the ranks of the illiterate. This is certainly true of the very earliest Christians, who would have been the apostles of Jesus. In the Gospel accounts, we find that most of Jesus’s disciples are simple peasants from Galilee—uneducated fishermen, for example. Two of them, Peter and John, are explicitly said to be “illiterate” in the book of Acts (4:13). The apostle Paul indicates to his Corinthian congregation that “not many of you were wise by human standards” (1 Cor. 1:27)—which might mean that some few were well educated, but not most. As we move into the second Christian century, things do not seem to change much. As I have indicated, some intellectuals converted to the faith, but most Christians were from the lower classes and uneducated.

  

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• If rational thought thinks itself out to a conclusion, it arrives at something non-rational which, nevertheless, is a necessity of thought. This is the paradox which dominates our spiritual life. If we try to get on without this non-rational element, there result views of the world and of life which have neither vitality nor value.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
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• Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

  

  William Faulkner
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• I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cat
  • Stealing
  • Cream