Hunting

(276 votes)   When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(157 votes)   There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(149 votes)   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.

Anna Sewell

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(143 votes)   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.

Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist

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(129 votes)   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.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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