David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke famous quotes

The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.
-- David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke

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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.

At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.