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.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Cat

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Cat

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

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Cat

• 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.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Different
  • Free
  • Food

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

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Cat

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

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • Live
  • Cat

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

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Water
  • Air
  • Cat

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

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Daily
  • Cat
  • Cleaning

• 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.

  

  Chelsea Leyland
  • Cat

• 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.

  

  James Cromwell
  • People
  • Life
  • World

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

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Cat

• I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Why
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

  

  Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
  • Wind
  • Shadow
  • Cat

• The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Sea
  • Chinese

• We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

  

  David Paul
  • Darkness
  • Against
  • Burning

• I suppose that I am ambitious.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • War
  • Violence

• 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