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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Everything appertaining to the angler's art is cowardly, cruel, treacherous, and cat-like. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Angling is an innocent cruelty. - George Parker The pleasantest angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream, and greedily devour the treacherous bait. - William Shakespeare I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. - Izaak Walton The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here; Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow 'Him hath chose. - Izaak Walton Idle time not idly spent. - Sir Henry Wotton
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