Legendary Hunting Quotations...

[Fiagai]

During these interminable summer months I have been reading amongst other things of Lady Molly Cusack Smith of the North Galway hunt in Ireland

An anecdote ascribed to her goes as follows:

Many years ago after having spent a long day out hunting, a young groom commented on the sweaty nature of lady Mollys mount. Casting a stern eye at the lad, Lady Molly exclaimed...."if you had been between my legs for the best part of the day - you would be sweating as well young man!"

Anyone else got any good ones?

 

[giveachance]

"foxhunters who have all day long tried in vain to break their necks, join at night in a second attempt on their lives by drinking" Bernard de Mandeville

John 'mad jack' mytton on attempting to cross over the river Severn after the fox shouted back to the field 'let all who call themselves sportsmen, follow me'.

On another occasion mad jack was charging at a deep sunk fence with a high stiff rail on the rising side was heard to call out 'Now for the honour of Shropshire'

 

[hayinamanger]

''People talk about size, shape, shoulders, quarters, blood, bone, muscle, but for my part give me a hunter with brains, he has to take care of the biggest fool of the two and think for both'' G J Whyte Melville

''No colour like red. No sport like fox-hunting'' R S Surtees

''The soul of a horseman sings for joy of a hunting morn'' Will H Ogilvie

 

[Alec Swan]

Hardly a quote, perhaps, more a funny tale, and one which I've given on here before. Perhaps it will stand repeating!

On a particularly warm and scentless morning, out cubbing, the Master was becoming ever more irate, at the silence of hounds. A young, and presumably well meaning mounted follower, sidled up to the Master, and assured him that he could smell a fox.

The Master, known to be an irascible man, replied, "Excellent. Come down to the kennels tomorrow, we'll put you to our best bitch"!

Alec.

 

[JenHunt]

the only one I know/can remember off the top of my head, is one that's frequently used on here in people's sigs...

A woman never looks so well as on returning wet and muddied from a day's hunting. Surtees I believe.

 

[irish_only]

Never jump a gate leaning towards you, or kiss man leaning away from you

 

[combat_claire]

“It isn’t mere convention. 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

"Happy are those who hunt for their own pleasure And not to astonish others"

Surtees

"One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other"

Jane Austen

"The wildlife of today is not ours to dispose of as we please, we have it in trust, we must account for it for those that come after"

King George VI