Macavity Quotes & Sayings

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. — Maxwell Maltz

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity — Steve Maraboli

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley

I'm not addicted to Reading. I can quite as soon as I finish one more chapter. — Unknown

The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arcs, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharine the Seconds, and they riot in battle, and murder, and clamour, and desperation. If they can't agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they'll make mountains of warfare and vexation out of domestic molehills; and social storms in household teacups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they'll quarrel with Mrs Jones about the shape of a mantle or the character of a small maid-servant. To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the nosier, the more persevering, the most self-assertive sex. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

He has ultimate faith in our capacity for redemption, no matter how naughty we've been. Through his legend of stealth generosity, he teaches us that if you look for a way to bring wonder to others, you'll find it. — Sal Lizard

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk! — Bette Midler

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight — Carol Hollinger

Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar. — Catherynne M Valente

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity. — T. S. Eliot

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. — Raina Telgemeier

If I didn't know better,I'd think she arranged this snowstorm just so we'd all have to stay indoors for a while. — Rachel Hawthorne