Fur Coats Quotes

• Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

  Jeanne Schinto

  Dog, People, Training

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• A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.

  Seymour Hicks

  Sex, Men, Wife

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• The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

  Joseph Epstein

  Running, True Joy, Texas

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

  Gemma Arterton

  Cat, Fur, Coats

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• I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.

  Jayne Meadows

  Sorry, Real, Heart

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• I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

  Peta Wilson

  Car, Fur, Coats

  "Peta Wilson's Verbal Seduction" by Tyler Cabot, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Animal, Deep Thought

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Bryan Ferry

  Fur, Coats, Stuff

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• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  Esther Dyson

  Nice, Eyebrows, Killers

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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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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• I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Fire, Water

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98

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• 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

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

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• Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

  Emo Philips

  Tree, Fur, Coats

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• 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, Coats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Fur, Coats

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.958, e-artnow

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

  Bernard Malamud

  Country, Apology, Russia

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• The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

  Jason Wu

  Mean, Giving, Dresses

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

  Noel Gallagher

  Girl, Winning, Class

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• Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

  Li Bai

  Sweet, Horse, Flower

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• The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, God, Humorous

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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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