angler quotes

I shall stay [the reader] no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this†discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a- fishing.

- Izaak Walton
  The Compleat Angler,'Epistle to the Reader'.

An excellent angler, and now with God. 888

- Izaak Walton
  Of Sir George Hastings,The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.4.

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

- Izaak Walton
  The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.5.