Fur Quotes - Page 3

• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Rain, Smell

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

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Needs, Alternatives, Compassionate

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• Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Religious, Teaching, Important

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• I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

  Martha Stewart

  Real, Heart, Animal

  "Martha Stewart: Unlikely PETA spokesperson" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. September 20, 2005.

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• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Meat Eating, Shoes, Clothes

  "Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur: Kill 'Beasts' Before They Kill Us". www.foxnews.com. January 3, 2009.

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

  Kate Walsh

  Tails, Four, Roommate

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

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

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

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

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

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Children, Science

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

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• Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

  Joan Rivers

  Common Sense, Vegetarian, Common

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• Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

  Tim Howard

  Animal, Skins, Looks

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• There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Eggs, Differences

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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

  Peter S. Beagle

  Cat, Firsts, Appearance

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

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cat, Soul, Burning

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

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• 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

  Love Is, Thinking, World

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

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• When I see a person wearing a fur coat, I see not only the coat but the animals who were cruelly abused, killed and skinned to make that coat, and also I see the person wearing that coat being reborn as a poor fox crazily circulating in a tiny cage waiting to be skinned. And I see the poor dairy cow who has been raped and exploited, and in the same picture, I see the new future dairy cow taking her place, in the form of that person putting milk in her coffee, today.

  Sharon Gannon

  Coffee, Animal, Waiting

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• Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Hair, Mad, Soul

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• You need a name.” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,” Dali said. “Justice Group,” Jim said. “Since Justice League is taken.” “Fools.” Doolittle shook his head. “Fools,” I said into the receiver.

  Ilona Andrews

  Team, Taken, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.179, Penguin

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• When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Stupid

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• While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  "What We Can Learn From Animals" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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

  Katherine Applegate

  Bugs

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Wind

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• So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Baby, Sweaters, Ballet

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• 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, Phony, Show Me

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• 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, Lines, Sometimes

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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