Top 50 Fur Quotes

When I finished touring ‘Fur and Gold,’ I was just like, ‘What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?’ I didn’t really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

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

My couch is made of cat’s hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it’s made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can’t have visitors. I can’t ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they’re walking around, and it’s not fair to people.

Modern fake fur looks so much like real fur that the moment it leaves the atelier, no one can tell it’s not the real thing. And I’ve struggled with that.

I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you’re looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

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

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it’s a status symbol. That doesn’t register for me; I just see dead animals.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that’s O.K., what’s wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

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.

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.

I’ve had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling – there’s no excuse for selling it.

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.

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

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

You can get fake fur, which, if that’s what you want – if you want that fur look – it looks just the same. It’s really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.

I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.

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.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women’s clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

In the past, I have approximated the look of monkey fur and yak hair with human hair because it’s inexpensive, and it lasts a long time.

I have a few vintage furs and have a particular weakness for Mongolian lamb fur – it’s quite ’70s – and I like the volume fur gives.

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

My six favorite textures for fall and winter are leather, fur, tweed, mohair, velvet and wool. I love that they are all as warm as they are fashionable and easy to incorporate into your wardrobe.

Not only is fur cruel, it’s also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

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.

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

I never wear heavy animal prints, because I feel sad for the animals. They look majestic with their striped or printed hide and fur, and when people wear the same, they look horrible and out of place.

When I see someone wearing fur, I just want to sit them down in front of one of PETA’s videos and show them just how badly animals suffer for this supposed fabric that no one needs.

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

I bite my split ends off in the car, which is gross. It’s disgusting. I’ve probably got a fur ball in my stomach the size of a tennis ball.

Most women have jobs that require them to leave the house. A cat is actually a perfect pet. You get the love and companionship of a creature covered in fur, and you don’t have to take it for a walk, and it can feed itself. Less maintenance. Surely any man can appreciate the practicality of this choice.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who’s got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can’t say to humans.

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

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

‘Venus in Fur’ is very Polanski: you have the knife of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’; you have Thomas disguised as a woman as in ‘The Tenant,’ when Vanda puts makeup on him, it’s like ‘Cul de Sac’; the dress of Tess and other details that are very Polanski. He fell in love with the play because it was so much him.

I’m not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I’m not really a meat and potatoes guy.

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.

We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.

They make really great synthetic fur – you really don’t need real fur. And it’s cheaper, so why spend the money?

I would never wear fur.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It’s a billion dollar industry.

I’ve been awarded fur coats and I’m hoping to stop it in our pageant community.

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.

The director is planning on titling the film ‘Yummy Fur’ so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to ‘Yummy Fur’ to match the film.

I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it’s so pretty! Also, I’m not a big fur person, but I’ll do a vintage fur every now and then.

When you’re young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, ‘Can’t you just dress normally, like all the other mums?’ I wanted her to blend in more, but I’ve always been really proud of Mum – as proud as she is of me.

I never wear fur, and I am a spokesperson for PETA.

Technology is now available that means you don’t need to use fur. The alternatives are luxurious. There is just no need.

Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.