“What is the cat?” he exclaimed. “It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, ‘I’ve made a blunder.’ And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.”

“The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.”

“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold”

“Bonapartist democrat.""Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.”

“For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.”

“No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...”

“The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.”