Fur Quotes:

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

- Alexander Pope

topic: Nature, Children, Fur, Monarchs

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

- Alexei Sayle

topic: People, Motorcycle, Fur, Biking, Motorcycle Gangs

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

- Alice Hegan Rice

source: Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.121, University Press of Kentucky

topic: Fur, Trouble, Easy

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

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Adversity, Flying, Fur, Calmer

There's always a way to wear fur,

- Anna Wintour

source: "The September Issue". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

topic: 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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Fur, Looks, Faux

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Animal, Fur, Mink, Fur Coats

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

topic: 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

topic: Stuff, Hats, Fur, Mary J Blige, Fur Coats

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

- Catherine Malandrino

source: "Catherine Malandrino Loves Fur, Old Buildings, Cigarettes". Interview with Corbin Chamberlin, www.thecut.com. February 13, 2011.

topic: Fur, Default, Indulgence

Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Meat, Fur, May

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

- Christy Turlington

topic: 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

topic: Animal, Next Steps, Fur, Leather Jackets

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

- Dominique Swain

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. February 2007.

topic: Animal, Thinking, Fur

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

- Donald Barthelme

topic: 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

topic: Heart, Fur, Literature

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

- Elisabetta Canalis

source: "Clooney ex Elisabetta Canalis gets naked for PETA" by Piya Sinha-Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

topic: Kids, Fur, Littles, Little Kid

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

topic: Bravery, Principles, Fur, Danish

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

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

topic: Science, Men, Fur, Wrong Way

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

topic: Animal, Thinking, Fur

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Fur, Coats, 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

topic: Animal, Suffering, Fur, Suffering And Death, Sentient Beings

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

- Gemma Arterton

topic: Cat, Fur, Coats, Spinsters, Fur Coats

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

- Gene Tierney

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: "The Fur Trade in Canada". Book by Harold Innis, "Conclusion", p. 393, 1930.

topic: Land, Political, Fur, Pacific

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

topic: People, Want, Fur

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.

- Isaac Mizrahi

topic: Fashion, Fake, Fur, Cheesecake

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

source: Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

topic: Feelings, Fur, Coats

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

- J. Carter Brown

topic: Cat, Fur, Way

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

- Jason Momoa

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Energy, Fur, Coats, Fur Coats

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

- Johnny Weir

topic: Fur, Closets, Peta

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

- Johnny Weir

topic: Secret, Fans, Fur

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Fashion, Fake, Fur

The discussion of fur is childish.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Hate, Love And Hate, Fur

Personally, I don't wear fur.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Fur

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

- Karla Kuskin

topic: Cat, Fur, Sun, If You Like Me

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

- Kate Walsh

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fur, Tails, Four

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

- Katherine Applegate

topic: 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

topic: Eye, Necks, Fur, Deep Breath, Timbre

I would never wear fur.

- Kristen Wiig

topic: Fur

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Cat, Soul, Fur

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

- Lance Loud

topic: School, Fur, Antiques, Prom Night

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

topic: Monsters, Fur, Lines, Fangs

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

topic: Mind, Watches, Fur, Venus In Furs

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

- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

topic: Cat, Batteries, Fur

My favorite fur is wild acrylic.

- Linda Palmer

source: Linda Palmer (2005). “Love Her to Death”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

topic: Clothes, Fur, My Favorite

Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.

- Madame de Pompadour

topic: 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

topic: Ideas, Needs, Fur, Igloos

Divas need their furs!

- Martha Reeves

topic: Needs, Fur

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

- Maurice Chevalier

topic: 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

topic: Grateful, Engineering, Fur, Venus In Furs

'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

source: Norman Lindsay (2006). “The Magic Pudding”, p.52, Courier Corporation

topic: Smoking, Fur, Said, Tobacco

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

- Olivier Theyskens

source: "Big Bang Theory". www.elle.com. June 14, 2011.

topic: Light, Fur, Shapes, Retro

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

topic: Kissing, Sheep, Fur, My First Kiss, Shinee

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

topic: Sight, Fur, Meat, Slaughterhouses, Sight And Sound

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

- Rita Rudner

topic: Cat, Fur, Waste

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

- Rue McClanahan

topic: 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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Animal, Smell, Fur

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

- Smokey Robinson

topic: Car, Stuff, Fur

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

- Theophile Gautier

topic: Cat, Fur, Dilettantes

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

topic: 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

topic: Responsibility, Suffering, Fur

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

- Wayne Pacelle

topic: Fighting, Animal, Fur, Killing Animals

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

- Kathy Freston

topic: 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

topic: Fur, Coats, Stuff, Boyish, Fur Coats

Fashion makes the fur fly.

- Margaret Fishback

topic: 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

source: Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

topic: Play, People, Fur, Fur Coats

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

- Richard Overy

topic: Hunting, Fur, Togas, Fur Coats, Faux

The Flinstones wore furs, they ate red meat, and had a stoneage philosophy. In fact, they were the first Republicans.

- Jay Leno

topic: Philosophy, Meat, Fur, Red Meat

I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?

- Steve Martin

topic: Cat, Fur, Baths

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

- Peter S. Beagle

source: Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

topic: Cat, Fur, Firsts

I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Inspirational, People, Fur

Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Common Sense, Fur, Vegetarian

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

- Joaquin Phoenix

topic: Needs, Alternatives, Fur

Chicken nuggets don't die any easier than baby fur seals.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Baby, Nuggets, Fur, Chicken Nuggets

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Hero, Men, Fur, Dens, Valet

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

- Dave Barry

topic: Cat, Fur, Rotting, Stools, Bunk

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

- John James Audubon

source: Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Men, Fur, May

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, p.276, Lulu.com

topic: Kings, Fur, Make Out

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

- Grace Jones

source: "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

topic: Different, Three, Fur

I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

- Grace Jones

source: "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

topic: Fur, Looks, Ifs

I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

- Grace Jones

source: "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

topic: Fur, Designer

You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

- Dean Koontz

source: Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.326, Penguin

topic: Love Is, Thinking, Fur, Because Of You

Cats are a waste of fur.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Cat, Fur, Waste

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

- Diane Ackerman

source: Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.18, Vintage

topic: Bats, Adults, Fur

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

source: "Florence Green is 81". "Come Back, Dr. Caligari". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1964.

topic: Heart, Fur, Literature

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Humility, Pride, Fur

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

- Kanye West

source: "Barney Frank: The Comedian's Politician". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. May 10, 2013.

topic: Sleep, Fur, Pillow

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

- Kanye West

source: Song: Jimmy Kimmel Interview Pt. 1, 2013

topic: Sleep, Fur, Pillow

I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

- Wes Anderson

source: "Wes Anderson Interview FANTASTIC MR. FOX". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 27, 2009.

topic: Fur, Puppets, Reason

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Fashion, Fake, Fur

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Fur, Murder, Expensive

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Animal, Fur, Legs, Faux, Animal Lover

What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.82, Penguin

topic: Baby, Orange, Fur, Shapeshifters, My Baby

He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Wall, Doors, Fur, Little Bit

Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

- Carl Van Vechten

topic: Cat, Breathing, Fur

Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Animal, Wool, Fur, Breeders

He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Seductive, Fur, Phrases

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

topic: Boys, Fur, Phony