Fur Quotes

“Immers’d in furs,
Doze the gross race.”

“Wikipedia: Fur”

“... If we can't be cordial
to these creatures' fleece,
I think that we deserve to freeze.”

“Mounted on panthers’ furs and lions’ manes,
From rear to van they scour about the plains.”

“This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
The lion and the belly-pinchèd wolf
Keep their fur dry.”

“Was there any more repellent sight than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?”

“And over all, a Counterpane was plac’d,
Thick sown with Furs of many a Savage Beast,
Of Bears and Lions, heretofore his Spoil;
And still remain’d the Trophies of his Toil.”

“Tipt with jet,
Fair ermines, spotless as the snows they press;
Sables, of glossy black; and dark-embrown’d,
Or beauteous freakt with many a mingled hue,
Thousands besides, the costly pride of courts.”

“’Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.”

“It is really a joy to slip furs around a beautiful, luxurious woman, to see and feel how her neck, her lovely limbs snuggle against the costly soft furs, to lift the stray locks of her hair, and place them outside the collar, and when she takes off her cloak and the cosy warmth and the subtle scent of her body lingers on the tips of the sable, the effect is overpowering.”