Leopards

"It seems almost impossible for cats to make an ugly or undignified movement, and I would say the leopard in motion is the most beautiful sight of all."

"A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit."

"Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day..."

"It is perfection in natural design – sleek, smart, and powerful. Capable of amazing physical prowess, the leopard is a formidable predator; able to bring down prey significantly larger than itself."

"Leopards are cunning beasts and will lie quietly until you are almost on top of them. Then they will suddenly charge with the deadliest speed and determination."

"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

"Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti Gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra."

"There is a hair-trigger ferocity about the leopards. Each time one lifted one’s binoculars for a closer view one was confronted with two green glaring lamps that burned directly into one’s own eyes. The pupils had the effect of boring into you. No animal, not even the lion, has such an implacable gaze."

"Put a leopard and a V. antirrhopus together and the former would be in trouble."

"A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal."

"I am lithe, and light, and supple, like the leopard of the plain."

"Leopards on the gable-ends, Leopards on the painted stair, Stiff the blazoned shield they bear, Or and gules, a bend of vair, Leopards on the gable-ends, Leopards everywhere."

"King Richard II: ...[L]ions make leopards tame. Thomas Mowbray: Yea, but not change his spots:"

"The lively-shining leopard, speckled o'er With many a spot, the beauty of the waste."

"Jack: "What are your legs?" Archy: "Springs. Steel springs." Jack: "What are they going to do?" Archy: "Hurl me down the track." Jack: "How fast can you run?" Archy: "As fast as a leopard." Jack: "How fast are you gonna run?" Archy: "As fast as a leopard!" Jack: "Then let's see you do it!""

"If strolling forth, a beast you view, Whose hide with spots is peppered, As soon as she has leapt on you, You'll know it is the leopard."