Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Champfleury) Quotes

Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson

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• Natures

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• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

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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
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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.

  

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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.

  

  Carice van Houten
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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.

  

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

  

  T. S. Eliot
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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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.

  

  Ben Jonson
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• A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

  

  Charles Bukowski
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• Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

  

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  • Different
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• Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

  

  Jamais Cascio
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• Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  

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• Cleaning cat litter is an unpleasant daily chore for me, but the DuraScoop makes it much less unpleasant.

  

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• I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious.

  

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• But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

  

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• I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

  

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• The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

  

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• I naturally want to be provocative.

  

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• As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

  

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• A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

  

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• Technically he hasn't violated any laws by purchasing a tag. He was under the belief that he would be done and that he would be able to hunt this bison.

  

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• Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Cat
  • Distinction
  • Natures