These mink quotes will inspire you. Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neogale and Mustela and part of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, otters, and ferrets.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mink quotes, mink sayings, and mink proverbs.
Famous Mink Quotes
- “Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.” ~ S. Z. Sakall
- “No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” ~ Murray Banks
- “You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.” ~ Mae West
- “The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink.” ~ Pierre Balmain
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“A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.” ~ Milton Berle
- “That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, ‘Who cares what people think?’ and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.” ~ Tony Wilson
- “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“I don’t have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.” ~ Eartha Kitt
- “For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you’re hung out to dry. It’s like being a mink.” ~ Kyle MacLachlan
- “Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles – and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech – look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.” ~ Philip Roth
- “Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.” ~ Paris Hilton
- “Chinchilla is said to be chicer than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.” ~ Patrick Dennis
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“Hawaii’s own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.” ~ Colleen Hanabusa
- “I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.” ~ Jayne Cortez
- “A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “I like colorful stuff. I like wearing stuff that nobody is wearing. That’s why I wear the bear hat. I’ll wear the whole mink.” ~ French Montana
- “What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.” ~ Karen Chance
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“I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.” ~ Emo Philips
- “Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human-animal!” ~ Gary Yourofsky
- “I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.” ~ Waka Flocka Flame
- “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
- “Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.” ~ Dorothy Parker
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“You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?” ~ Prince Philip
- “Won’t cha…picture life as my wife, just think:
Full length mink, fat X and O links,
Bracelets to match, conversation was all that,
Showed you the safe combinations and all that.
Guess you could say you’s the one I trusted…
Who would ever think that you would spread like mustard?” ~ The Notorious B.I.G. - “I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!” ~ Bette Davis
- “I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!” ~ Tallulah Bankhead
- “You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners’ wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.” ~ Jeffrey Bernard
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“I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.” ~ Kay Arthur
- “If you eat chicken, maybe you’re on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you’re on another level. But if you wear cosmetics, cosmetics that are tested on animals, then you’re just unconscious. Really, my message is simple. It’s a message of compassion. In this world that is spinning madly out of control, we have to realize that we’re all related. We have to try to live harmoniously.” ~ Woody Harrelson
- “I don’t know what the country’s coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters–mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany’s arming.” ~ Arthur Wimperis
- “Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-” ~ Gary Yourofsky
- “I didn’t go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that’s worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice – from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood’s star system.” ~ Joan Caulfield
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“Nobody really needs a mink coat… Except the mink.” ~ Glenda Jackson
- “And I left the aspirin next to the phone with a tall glass of water. Figured you weren’t going to be able to make it to the coffeepot. Take three, turn your ringer off, and sleep. If anything exciting happens, I’ll come and get you.” “I love you, honey.” “So buy me a mink and a nice pair of earrings for our anniversary.” “You got it.” ~ J.R. Ward
- “I’ll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.” ~ Iman Shumpert
- “Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They’re not beavers. I wouldn’t wear beavers. I’d rather have a mink coat made of mean little critters that are killed in a very nice way and treated nicely for their short, mean lives so that I could keep warm.” ~ Valerie Perrine
