hunt quotes

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

- Charlotte Bronte« 
  Jane Eyre ch.17.

   For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

-Rochdale
  The Age of Bronze, stanza14.

To Hunt an'assault'on the mountain merely meant a concerted, military-style operation; whereas to Shipton 'assault'sounded more like a criminal offence.

- Ingrid Cranfield
  Of the contrast in approach to the climbing of Mt Everest between Eric Shipton, originally appointed as leader of the1953 expedition, and John Hunt, who replaced him. In Expedition, vol.8, no.4,  Jul.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.

-John Dryden
  Epistle,'To my honoured kinsman  John Driden', l.92^5.

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Lady Usherword to Mrs Hushabye. Heartbreak House, act 3.

You will see Coleridgehe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls You will see Huntone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isa tomb.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' l.202^11.