- Son: Imagine giving you the sausage, Puss. I should make a sausage out of you. You'd make... one decent meal, and a fur cap. Is that all you can do for me, Puss? A sausage and a fur cap...
- Puss: [hisses] Get me some proper boots and you won't lack for fur caps, nor for decent meals, nor for anything else.
- [squints and disappears]
- Princess Vera: Well, you're not my master! I'm free to risk my life if I wish to!
- Puss: And I'd like permission to risk mine!
- Son: That's easy for you to say, you've got 8 more to go!
- Puss: Tch, well!
- Son: Puss! Where are you taking me?
- Puss: Master! Don't worry. Your father entrusted you to me and I'll take care of you.
- Son: Entrusted me to you? He left you to me... I think.
- Puss: Many years ago, when I was just a kitten, a wicked man threw me in the Mill pond. It was your father fished me out. Since then... I've loved your family. And all these many years... I've lived pretty well with you, so don't think that I leave you now that you have nothing. And don't think that I don't know your heart's desire, for I've always observed you. That's what a cat does the best : Sit, watch... master.
- [singing as Corin falls asleep]
- Puss: Go to sleep, My friend! Give me all your fears, while I sit and watch you, as I've done for years. Yes, I've watched you laugh and I've felt your tears... through the night while you held me so tightly. Go to sleep, my friend, dream of lovely things, of a prince and a princess, of castles and kings. And I'll stay with you... till your dreams come true! Yes, I'll watch over you!
- [Yawns in his cat form]
- Puss: Watching over you, is what I must do!
- Puss: [Waking up Corin with a kick, bringing a cage with birds in it] Master!
- Son: What is it?
- Puss: I'll be gone for a while. You'll stay here until I come back.
- Son: [pointing at the cage] And here is our breakfast!
- Puss: These! These are too good for us.
- Son: I thought you said nothing would be too good for us. That's what you said.
- Puss: In time, my master, in time.
- Miller: My sons! I leave the Mill to my eldest son, John. The donkey, I leave to you, Peter. And to my youngest, Corin, oh dear Corin, I have nothing to leave you but My beloved cat, Puss.
- Puss: You never even gave me a decent name! How you gonna give me a decent meal! Much less a good pair of boots! Couldn't you thought of a better name... than Puss!
- Son: Puss! Why do you have to run away like that! I've never been so far away from home. I hope we come to a village soon so I could find some work. After all I not only have myself to feed, I have you to. What a luck! I inherit something I have to feed!
- Puss: A pair of boots... can change a cat... from a bum into aristocrat. No house in town that I can't waltz into. I might like to drop by the palace... for a chat!... And show the king what class he's at!
- Princess Vera: Do you think he'll be young?
- Lady Clara: Who?
- Princess Vera: Well, the Marquis of course. And handsome. Do you think he'll be handsome?
- Lady Clara: I'm afraid he would be polite, well bred, 'cause his servant is too polite and well bred. But I'm afraid he will not find you so.
- Princess Vera: Am I not polite and well bred?
- Lady Clara: No! I promised your dear mother before she died that I'd make you the most gracious princess that ever lived. But I've failed.
- Princess Vera: Oh, dear.
- Lady Clara: You'd rush forward when you should stay back, you'd laugh when you should be sad, and you get excited when you should be calm, you tell everyone what is on your mind, you bite your nails, you don't chew your food, and you never have a handkerchief, And now you 're thinking about the Marquis?
- Princess Vera: I shouldn't do that.
- Lady Clara: You shouldn't be aware that he exists! That's how a well mannered princess would behave. Instead probably if you ever meet him, you probably fling yourself at.
- Princess Vera: No, I won't. I promise.
- Lady Clara: Oh, yes, you will.
- Princess Vera: I promise... . I'm hopeless, aren't I?
- Lady Clara: Yes.