fox quotes

   Most of my colleagues were -ists of one sort or another; and however kind and friendly they might be, I, the man without a rag of a label to cover himself with, could not fail to have some of theuneasy feelings which must have beset the historical fox when, after leaving the trap in which his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

-T(homas) H(enry) Huxley
  Science and Christian Tradition.

Wildly o'er Desmond the war-wolf is howling, Fearless the eagle sweeps over the plain, The fox in the streets of the city is prowling All, all who would scare them are banished or slain!

- M(ichael) J(oseph) McCann
  The Spirit of the Nation,'O'Donnell  Abu'.

Crazy Like a Fox.

- S(ydney) J(oseph) Perelman
  Title of book.

   Goodbye Mr Zanuck. It certainly has been a pleasure working for16th Century Fox.

-Jean Renoir
On leaving Hollywood. Attributed.

Nosportsmanwantstokill a foxor thepheasant as Iwant to kill him when I see him doing it.

- George Bernard Shaw
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

An old-fashioned Virginia fox hunt, gentlemen.

- BookerTaliaferro Washington
  Comment on the skirmish at Princeton, 3 Jan. Attributed.

The English country gentlemangalloping aftera fox^the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Lord Illingworth. AWoman of No Importance, act1.