Bloodsports
Quotes on Bloodsports
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood ‘Crutch (1893-1970) American essayist
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
It is the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger.
R. S. Suttees (1803-1861) English sporting novelist
There is a passion for hunting something deep implanted in the human breast.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist
It is chiefly through the instinct to kill that man achieves intimacy with the life of nature.
Lord (Sir Kenneth) Clark (1903-1973) British critic
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 (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
R. Surtees (1803-1864) English sporting novelist
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) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The birds seem to consider the muzzle of my gun as their safest position.
Sydney Smith (1771 -1845) English writer, clergyman
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer
