Quotes about hunting




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"There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast."

Dickens, Charles on hunting    Share


"Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring."

Dietrich, Marlene on hunting    Share

"They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them."

Erasmus, Desiderius on hunting    Share

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

Hemingway, Ernest on hunting    Share

"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."

Johnson, Samuel on hunting    Share

"Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know."

Sewell, Anna on hunting    Share

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."

Shaw, George Bernard on hunting    Share

"One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

Wilde, Oscar on hunting    Share

"Deer Camp is a drink fest entirely surrounded by liars in camouflage"

Mocca, William on hunting    Share

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