Horse Quotes - Page 37

• Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

  Art Buchwald

  People, World, Exclusive

  Art Buchwald (1957). “The Brave Coward”

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• There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Class, Two, Equestrian

  1919 Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.

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• Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

  Henning Eichberg

  Foundation, Delicacy, Position

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• Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Often Is, Contentment, Asking

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• The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

  George W. Melville

  Taught, Docile, Ifs

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• ...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

  Rachel Field

  Rain, Fall

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hands, Two, Four

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and careful was every footfall.

  Paul Heiney

  Done, Growing, Might

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• An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

  Christilot Hanson-Boylen

  Wire, Unseen, Pressure

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• When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Beautiful, Fall, Cutting

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• ...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

  Josh Billings

  Virtue, Discourse, Sells

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• He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

  John Dryden

  Moving, Pride, Hands

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• The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the horse flew by the wind itself.

  Marguerite Henry

  Wind, Sparks, Flew

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• My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

  Jonathan Swift

  Four, Stranger, Hours

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse's muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints . . . The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Space, Joints, Broads

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “The Horse Goddess”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

  Ovid

  Running, Night, Translations

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• If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

  Joan Sutherland

  Women, Thinking, Opera

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

  John Hay

  Doors, Land, Pale

  John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

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• There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.

  Frederick Schiller Faust

  Important, Good Horse

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• She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Gone, Noble

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4209, Delphi Classics

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• There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Men, Secret

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• While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

  John Heywood

  Grass

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• The grey mare is the better horse.

  John Heywood

  Grey, Mares

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

  Walter Scott

  White, Needs, Dear

  Sir Walter Scott (1835). “The Lay of the Last Minstrel”, p.84

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• Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Noble, Deeds

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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