Quote by Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country

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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. – Oscar Wilde

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Soccer
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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

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Prison
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde

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Columbus Day
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Other Quotes from
Hunting
category

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten em. – Hilaire Belloc

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Hunting

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

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Hunting

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. – George Bernard Shaw

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Hunting

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

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Hunting

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He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death. – David Lloyd George

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