These fur quotes will inspire you. Fur the short, fine, soft hair of certain animals or coat or clog with a deposit or thick layer.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fur quotes, fur sayings, and fur proverbs.
Famous Fur Quotes
- “Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore
- “Divas need their furs!” ~ Martha Reeves
- “Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.” ~ Rue McClanahan
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“I’d rather go naked than wear fur.” ~ Christy Turlington
- “We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- “Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.” ~ Natalie Imbruglia
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“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
- “A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.” ~ Seymour Hicks
- “I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.” ~ Gemma Arterton , Fur quotes coat
- “Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?” ~ Jean Paul
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“People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they’re in the rain. And they look fat and gross.” ~ Pamela Anderson
- “And Mary J. Blige, she’s got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She’s good; I like her.” ~ Bryan Ferry
- “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- “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
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“I just don’t think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.” ~ Dominique Swain
- “The cat is a dilettante in fur.” ~ Theophile Gautier
- “People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.” ~ Alexei Sayle
- “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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“I wore a woman’s antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.” ~ Lance Loud
- “I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.” ~ Kiki Smith
- “I’ve never worn fur, either. I’m a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.” ~ Sadie Frost
- “Know, Nature’s children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.” ~ Alexander Pope
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“Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.” ~ Elisabetta Canalis
- “I’ve got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.” ~ Kate Walsh
- “It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.” ~ Dave Eggers
- “Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.” ~ Gene Tierney
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“Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.” ~ Catherine Malandrino
- “It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.” ~ Maurice Chevalier
- “I would never wear fur.” ~ Kristen Wiig
- “We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” ~ William Ralph Inge
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“I don’t wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.” ~ Gisele Bundchen
- “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
- “He marveled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- “An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits… they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs … He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.” ~ Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
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“Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it’s a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously, I don’t use animal skins or fur of any kind.” ~ Stella McCartney
- “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
- “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
- “I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It’s a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.” ~ Ann Patchett
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“As human beings, we’re very materialistic and have all this stuff – furs and cars and diamonds and money.” ~ Smokey Robinson
- “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
- “Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.” ~ Ellsworth Huntington
- “I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it’s horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.” ~ Kelly Osbourne
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“There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.” ~ J. Carter Brown
- “Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals’ suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.” ~ Paul Harvey
- “The discussion of fur is childish.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- “My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
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“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “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 , Fur quotes love
- “We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.” ~ River Phoenix
- “Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
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“There is no need for fur – since there are compassionate alternatives.” ~ Joaquin Phoenix
- “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
- “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
- “My favorite fur is wild acrylic.” ~ Linda Palmer
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“Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.” ~ Rue McClanahan
- “Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.” ~ Tim Howard
- “Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “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
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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
- “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
- “My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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“Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.” ~ Bernard of Clairvaux
- “There’s always a way to wear fur.” ~ Anna Wintour
- “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 of you, I’ll never be the same.” ~ Dean Koontz
Fur a piece of the dressed pelt of an animal used to make, trim, or line wearing apparel.
