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  • You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

    Funny   Humor   Hunting  
  • When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  • Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

    Sports   Animal   Hunting  
  • I decline to go fox hunting.

  • The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

    Funny   Country   Hunting  
    "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".
  • I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

    Son   Hunting   Want  
  • Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

    July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating", book by Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy, and Jane Goodall, 2005.
  • 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.

    Sports   Hurt   Horse  
    Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies
  • I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of killing foxes, such as shooting, are crueller is to accuse all those people who work in the countryside of being more cruel than they need to be. In all the time that I have lived in and represented the countryside, I have seen no evidence that those people have that view.

  • There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

    Bad Ass   Men   Hunting  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.217, Simon and Schuster
  • You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

    Eye   Hunting   Vegas  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.55, Vintage
  • When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

    Morning   Fun   Father  
  • Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

    War   Hunting   People  
  • The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.

    Hunting   Foxes   Rifles  
  • There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

    Oliver Twist ch. 10 (1838)
  • Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

  • Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

    Sports   Animal   Gun  
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