Fur quotes

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
-- Alexander Pope

#Nature #Children #Fur

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
-- Alexei Sayle

#People #Motorcycle #Fur

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
-- Alice Hegan Rice

#Fur #Trouble #Easy

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
-- Andrea Arnold

#Adversity #Flying #Fur

There's always a way to wear fur,
-- Anna Wintour

#Fur #Way

But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.
-- AnnaLynne McCord

#Real #Fur #Looks

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!
-- Barbi Benton

#Believe #Animal #Fur

I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
-- Bonnie Hunt

#Animal #Fur #Legs

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Stuff #Hats #Fur

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
-- Catherine Malandrino

#Fur #Default #Indulgence

Finest fur may cover toughest meat.
-- Chief Joseph

#Meat #Fur #May

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
-- Christy Turlington

#Naked #Fur

On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.
-- Dan Mathews

#Animal #Next Steps #Fur

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.
-- Dominique Swain

#Animal #Thinking #Fur

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
-- Donald Barthelme

#Heart #Fur #Literature

His examiner...said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
-- Donald Barthelme

#Heart #Fur #Literature

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.
-- Elisabetta Canalis

#Kids #Fur #Littles

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
-- Eric Sevareid

#Bravery #Principles #Fur

Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67
-- Erin Hunter

#Mentor #Fur #Know It All

Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?
-- Erin Hunter

#Fighting #Fur #Territory

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
-- Erwin Chargaff

#Science #Men #Fur

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.
-- Eva Mendes

#Animal #Thinking #Fur

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Summer #Fur #Coats

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
-- Gary L. Francione

#Animal #Suffering #Fur

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.
-- Gemma Arterton

#Cat #Fur #Coats

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
-- Gene Tierney

#Car #Weakness #Fur

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.
-- Grace Slick

#Animal #Fake #Fur

Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.
-- Harold Innis

#Land #Political #Fur

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#People #Want #Fur

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.
-- Isaac Mizrahi

#Fashion #Fake #Fur

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.
-- Isabel Briggs Myers

#Feelings #Fur #Coats

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Cat #Fur #Way

I lay naked in furs a lot. I think I'm naked more than I talk.
-- Jason Momoa

#Thinking #Naked #Fur

I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.
-- Jennie Garth

#Fur #Want #Vegetarian

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
-- John Cheever

#Energy #Fur #Coats

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.
-- Johnny Weir

#Fur #Closets #Peta

I'm a huge fur fan; it's no secret to anyone anymore.
-- Johnny Weir

#Secret #Fans #Fur

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Fake #Fur

The discussion of fur is childish.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Hate #Love And Hate #Fur

Personally, I don't wear fur.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fur

If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.
-- Karla Kuskin

#Cat #Fur #Sun

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
-- Kate Walsh

#Fur #Tails #Four

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
-- Katherine Applegate

#Fur #Bugs

It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.
-- Kathi Appelt

#Eye #Necks #Fur

I would never wear fur.
-- Kristen Wiig

#Fur

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Cat #Soul #Fur

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
-- Lance Loud

#School #Fur #Antiques

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Monsters #Fur #Lines

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#Mind #Watches #Fur

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#Cat #Batteries #Fur

Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
-- Libba Bray

#Boys #Fur #Phony

My favorite fur is wild acrylic.
-- Linda Palmer

#Clothes #Fur #My Favorite

Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.
-- Madame de Pompadour

#Fur #Canada

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.
-- Margaret Cho

#Ideas #Needs #Fur

Divas need their furs!
-- Martha Reeves

#Needs #Fur

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
-- Maurice Chevalier

#Men #Jewels #Fur

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
-- Nina Arianda

#Grateful #Engineering #Fur

'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'
-- Norman Lindsay

#Smoking #Fur #Said

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Light #Fur #Shapes

My lips went inside the sheep's fur. It was my first kiss. What is this. Why did the staff make me do this?!
-- Onew

#Kissing #Sheep #Fur

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.
-- Peter Singer

#Sight #Fur #Meat

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur.
-- Rita Rudner

#Cat #Fur #Waste

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.
-- Rue McClanahan

#Fur #Used #Turns

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-- Sadie Frost

#Animal #Smell #Fur

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
-- Smokey Robinson

#Car #Stuff #Fur

The cat is a dilettante in fur.
-- Theophile Gautier

#Cat #Fur

Frankly, I think that fur on a man is difficult to pull off. If it's the warmth you're after, then I'd go with a fur-lined coat - it won't show.
-- Tim Gunn

#Men #Thinking #Fur

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.
-- Twiggy

#Responsibility #Suffering #Fur

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals
-- Wayne Pacelle

#Fighting #Animal #Fur

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
-- Kathy Freston

#Fur #Grit #Meat

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Fur #Coats #Stuff

Fashion makes the fur fly.
-- Margaret Fishback

#Fashion #Fur

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.
-- P. W. Botha

#Play #People #Fur

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.
-- Richard Overy

#Hunting #Fur #Togas