William Shakespeare Quotes

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

William Shakespeare

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• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
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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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• 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.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
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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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Feel
  • Cat
  • Retirement

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• A cat only has itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Cat
  • Only
  • Itself

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

  

  Pam Brown
  • Home
  • House
  • Small

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

  

  E. B. White
  • Thought
  • Cat
  • First Amendment

• 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.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Walking
  • Cat

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

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Way
  • Cat
  • Wrong

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

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Man
  • Single
  • Quality

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

  

  Olav Thon
  • You
  • Food
  • Cat

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

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Think
  • Dog
  • Cat

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

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • City
  • Cat

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

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Done
  • Cat

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Women
  • Present
  • Cat

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

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Cat

• 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
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Guitar

• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • May
  • Intelligence
  • Stronger

• What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Party
  • Rock
  • Star

• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Deep
  • Literature
  • Curse

• O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cat
  • Stealing
  • Cream