Auden W.H. 1907-1973
Dog Beneath the Skin
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read
The Hunter's waking thoughts.
McLeod Fiona 1855-1905
"The Lonely Hunter"
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
Proverbs and Sayings
Persian
When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„The Princess"
Man is the hunter; woman is his game:
The sleek and shining creatures of the chase,
We hunt them for the beauty of their skins;
They love us for it, and we ride them down.
Allingham William 1828-1899
The Fairies
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men.
Burrows Sir Fred 1887-1973
(speech as last Governor of undivided Bengal)
Unlike my predecessors I have devoted more of my life to shunting and hooting than to hunting and shooting.
Jonson Samuel 1709-1784
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Pepys Samuel 1633-1703
Most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I understand very little.
Punch 1841-1992
It ain't the ‘unting as ‘urts ‘im, it's the ‘ammer, ‘ammer,
‘ammer along the ‘ard ‘igh road.
Surtees R.S. 1805-1864
Handley Cross
‘Unting is all that's worth living for ... it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.