#Hunting Quotes

“More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.”

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

“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”

“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.”

“I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).”

“But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.”

“I decline to go fox hunting.”

“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.”

“I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.”

“I just don't like killing creatures.”

“I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.”

“I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.”