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Daily Inspiration Quote by Henry Morgan

"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored"

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A petty insult dressed up as a personality test, this line works by turning a harmless preference into a moral diagnosis. “Insufficient personalities” is deliberately vague, the kind of accusation that can’t be disproved because it isn’t really describing anyone; it’s describing the speaker’s contempt. Morgan’s punch is the inversion: cat lovers don’t choose cats because cats are charmingly self-willed, he suggests; they choose them because they crave neglect. The joke flatters the reader who’s “in on it” by offering an easy hierarchy: dog people as hearty, socially competent extroverts; cat people as emotionally underbuilt masochists.

The subtext is about control and status. Cats are famous for withholding attention, which makes them an ideal prop in a worldview that treats affection as a currency and attention as a trophy. If you “adore being ignored,” you can recast rejection as preference, humiliation as sophistication. The insult is less about pets than about people who cope with social powerlessness by romanticizing distance. It’s a sneer at those who make peace with not being chosen.

The “profession: criminal” tag sharpens the context in an odd way: this is the kind of streetwise psychology that pretends to be hard-nosed realism while actually operating on caricature. It’s a line that performs toughness by ridiculing softness, and it weaponizes a familiar cultural stereotype (the aloof cat, the needy owner) to do quick social sorting. Whether it’s accurate doesn’t matter; it’s built to sting, not to understand.

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Rejected source: The fallen priest (Henry Morgan, 1882)IA: bwb_P7-BUK-205
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Morgan, Henry. (2026, January 13). People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-with-insufficient-personalities-are-fond-167578/

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Morgan, Henry. "People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored." FixQuotes. January 13, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-with-insufficient-personalities-are-fond-167578/.

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"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored." FixQuotes, 13 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-with-insufficient-personalities-are-fond-167578/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Henry Morgan is a Criminal from Welsh.

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