Angling Quotes - Page 4

• Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

  Washington Irving

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Washington Irving (1829). “The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...”

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• Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

  Desmond Morris

  Sports, Pain, Animal

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• O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Fishing, Doubt

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Fishing, Born

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

  Izaak Walton

  Blessing, Humanity, World

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• Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Fishes

  "The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation".

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• After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Doctors, Fishing

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.240, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

  Theodore Gordon

  Real, Air, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books

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• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Art, Animal

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• Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Hate, Blessing, Fishing

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers”, p.246

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• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

  Izaak Walton

  May

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• Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”, p.102

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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

  Izaak Walton

  Mean, Men, Practice

  1653 The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

  Izaak Walton

  Learning, Science, Men

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1824). “The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, from Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-rate Artists, to which are Added, an Introductory Essay, the Linnœan Arangement of the Various River Fish Delineated in the Work, and Illustrative Notes”, p.57

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• In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.

  Ray Bergman

  Memories, Fishing, Would Be

  Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”

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• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

  Thomas McGuane

  Fishing, Trout, Consuming

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

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• We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Judging, Drs, Berries

  The Compleat Angler, 2nd ed., pt. 1, ch. 5 (1655)

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• Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Fishing, Rivers, Excuse

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• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

  Ed Zern

  Sports, Lakes, Sea

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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