Stags Quotes:

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Tortoises, Stags

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

- Bernard Levin

source: On Harold Macmillan; attributed

topic: Foxes, Stags, Mentality

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

- Ezra Pound

source: Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

topic: Hunting, White, World, Stags

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

topic: Horse, Animal, Earthquakes, Cyclones, Stags

Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

- Anna Sewell

source: Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

topic: Sports, Hurt, Horse, Good Horse, Why Me

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

- Martin Freeman

topic: Home, Weekend, Watches, Stags

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

- Scott Cunningham

source: Scott Cunningham (2011). “Cunningham's Book of Shadows: The Path of An American Traditionalist”, p.19, Llewellyn Worldwide

topic: Honor, Bees, Salmon, Stags, Living Things

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

- Paul of the Cross

topic: Attachment, Water, Drink, Stags

As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

topic: Running, Bullets, Doe, Stags

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

- I. L. Peretz

topic: Dark, Age, Parks, Toothless, Stags

Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Party, Stags, Antlers

So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

- Erasmus Darwin

topic: Animal, Car, Survival, Stags

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

- Leigh Bardugo

topic: Taken, Men, He Man, Stags

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

- Bob Cousy

topic: Basketball, Rights, Cities, Stags

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

- Matthew Gray Gubler

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Father, Crazy, Walt, Stags

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

- Idries Shah

topic: Taken, Meat, Lions, Jackals, Stags

And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Father, Heart, Tree, Talismans, Dementors

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

- Shelley Winters

topic: Party, Jockeys, Want, Stags

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Dog, Art, Wind, Tripping, Stags

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

- Leigh Hunt

topic: Beautiful, Song, Eye, Turkish, Epithet

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

topic: Music, Color, Snakes, Stags, Green Grass

Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.

- Timothy Garton Ash

topic: Thinking, Erosion, America, Stags, American Power

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

- Brian Jacques

topic: Three, Kicking, Looks, Basil, Serious Business

I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

- Winston Churchill

topic: Sports, Country, Home, Lodges, Stags

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

- Judy Grahn

source: Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”

topic: Mother, Husband, Princess, Strider, Barley

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.

- Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

topic: Procrastination, Hunting, Issues, Moral Issues, Stags

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

- John James Audubon

source: John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.117

topic: Stags

Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.

- William Matthews

topic: Reading, Knowledge, Blow, Stags

I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Bonus, Silver, Length, Stags, Umbridge

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

- Frank Skinner

topic: Culture, Modern, Fountain, Modern Culture, Stags

I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Years, Underwear, Band, Stags, Smugglers

In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Dog, Spring, Heart, Stags