“I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

“I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. ...”

“This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.”

“Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.”

“Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking ...”

“Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.”

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”