Fox Hunting

About Fox Hunting

“The Field is a most agreeable Coffee-house, and there is more real society to be met with there than in any other situation of life. It links all classes together, from the Peer to the Peasant. It is the English man’s peculiar privilege. It is not to he found in any other part of the globe, but in England's true land of liberty—and may it flourish to the end of time!!”
— Robert Hawkes, The Meynellian Science (1808)
“One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893), Act 1
“Of all things in this world, Fox-hunting is the most difficult thing to explain to those who know nothing about it.”
— Lord Willoughby de Broke, The Sport of our Ancestors (1921)
“It was quite by chance that I should be trotting down a Cotswold lane on a friend's old pony when the uniformed centaurs came galloping past.”
— Roger Scruton, "In for a hound...", The Guardian (28 November 2004)
“It is difficult for many people today to understand how you can be bound by a code of honour and sympathy to an animal that you are intending to kill; but this is exactly what was once understood by chivalry and it is perhaps a function of sport to cultivate the spirit of chivalry in those who engage in it.”
— Roger Scruton, "In for a hound...", The Guardian (28 November 2004)

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