Patricia Moyes Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature. — Patricia Moyes

It is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away. — Patricia Moyes

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule. — Patricia Moyes

One doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger. — Patricia Moyes

Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave. — Patricia Moyes

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. — Patricia Moyes

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Patricia Moyes

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ... — Patricia Moyes

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ... — Patricia Moyes

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit. — Patricia Moyes

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax. — Patricia Moyes

Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat. — Patricia Moyes

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away. — Patricia Moyes