Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter.

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.

With foxes we must play the fox.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

It is easy to shoot a skylark, but it is not so easy to produce its song.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

I'm against hunting - in fact, I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

My sister has a social conscience now. She still wears her fur coat, but across the back she embroidered a sampler that says 'Rest in Peace'.

Opponents of fox hunting foolishly suggest that drag hunting would be an adequate replacement for our sport. Well, I for one would take no pleasure from hunting foxes dressed in women's clothing.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning?

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, 'Because it's such a beautiful animal.' Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.

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

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.