“I have observed in women of her type a tendency to regard all athletics as inferior forms of fox-hunting”

“Very few people have settled entirely in the country but have grown at length weary of one another . . .  the gentleman falls in love with his dogs and horses and out of love with everything else.”

“’Unting is all that’s worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in ‘unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.”

“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”

“There is a passion for hunting, something deeply implanted in the human breast”

“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.”

" To horse and away  To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!"

"'Unting fills my thoughts by day, and many a good run I have in my sleep. Many a dig in the ribs I gives Mrs. J. when I thinks they're running into the warmint.  No man is fit to be called a sportsman wot doesn't kick his wife out of bed on haverage once in three weeks!"

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