Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

“...with a few sentences, the authors attempt to counteract the unscrupulous messages endemic to the title, content, and imagery of their book. This attempt…

— Kim Socha

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

— Alexander Hume

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon…

— Washington Irving

As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can…

— Samuel Johnson

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes…

— Matthew Scully

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern…

— Lionel Trilling

“Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you. Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear- no matter the…

— Yann Martel

“He who can deliberately inflict torture upon an animal, in order to heighten the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, is…

— William Cobbett

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have…

— Frances Osborne

“So I decided to do it [hike the Appalachian Trail]. More rashly, I announced my intention - told friends and neighbors, confidently informed my…

— Bill Bryson