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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.”

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“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.”

Knows World Want Feels Real Hard Care Animal I Care Coats Deep Thought Fur Fur Coats Because I Care Real Deep

Author:Diana Ross

“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!”

Age Today Forget Boys Five Pieces Sweet Flower Sorrow Thousand Ten Gold Let Me Horse Wine Coats Fur My Boys Fur Coats Sweet Wine

Author:Li Bai

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

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Author:Seymour Hicks

“There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.”

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Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.”

People Want Ends Play Able Young Bears Ears Radical Coats Fur Fur Coats

Author:P. W. Botha

“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.”

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Author:Chic Murray

“I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.”

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Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“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.”

Giving Mean Bigs Language Difficult Give Me Dresses Starting Print Coats Difficult Times Fur Dots Sophistication Starting Out Fur Coats Polka Polka Dots

Author:Jason Wu

“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.”

People Wanted Girl Winning Class Pool Working Class Coats Cocaine Fur Bananas Fur Coats

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.”

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Author:Richard Overy

“There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!”

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Author:Jamie Farr

“I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!”

People Giving Real Hard Guy Courses Cities Hollywood Sick Driving Hey Hard Times Los Angeles Heels Coats Fur Lipstick High Heels Hypocritical Boulevard Mailboxes Fur Coats

Author:Dana Gould

“I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.”

“I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.”

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Author:Mackenzie Davis

“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.”

Persons Has Beens Today Form Waiting Animal Poor Coffee Tiny Milk Cows Foxes Coats Cages Fur Reborn Dairy Fur Coats New Future Dairy Cows

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.”

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Author:T.I.

“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.”

Littles Courses Social Laughing Dog Cat Horse Dear Chickens Coats Fur Old Woman Make Me Laugh Infuriating Fur Coats

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.”

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Book:John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings

Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings

“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.”

Knows Needs Should Kind Might Baby Cost Tiny Ridiculous Gaps Ballet Pants Coats Pearls Fur Sweaters Moscow Fur Coats Capri

Book:Attachments

Source: Attachments

“Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.”

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Book:The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales

Source: The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales

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

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Book: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

Source: 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

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

“An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.”

Two Country Three Degrees Increase Climate Change Russia Grain Coats Harvest Fur Fur Coats

Author:Vladimir Putin

“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.”

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe

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

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Author:Gemma Arterton

“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!”

Ifs Believe Littles Has Beens I Believe Born Animal Raised Coats Fur Fur Coats Mink

Author:Barbi Benton

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

People Dog Training Deny Harm Coats Fur Dressed Up Dog Training Fur Coats

Author:Jeanne Schinto

“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.”

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Author:Jayne Meadows

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

Knows Tree Protest Fifteen Coats Fur Did You Know Fur Coats

Author:Emo Philips

“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.”

“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.”

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Author: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.”

Running Able Joy Pleasure Damn Texas Coats August Fur Jogging Damn Things True Joy Fur Coats

Author:Joseph Epstein

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

Stuff Hats Mary Coats Fur Like Her Fur Coats Mary J Blige

Author:Bryan Ferry

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

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Author:Bernard Malamud

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

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Author:Erma Bombeck