Best 13 quotes of Carl Van Vechten on MyQuotes

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.