For me, it is three:

Ruark:
He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money.
Horn of the Hutner

Capstick:
The man who was about to die padded softly along the narrow trail…
(Death in the Long Grass)

Roosevelt:
Tarleton took his big double barrel and advised me to take mine, as the sun had just set and it was likely to be close work, but I shook my head for the Winchester 405 is, at least for me personally, the “medicine gun” for lions.
(African Game Trails)

What, gentlemen is/are your favorite quote(s) from African hunting stories?
Cheers and thanks for your contributions.
Cal

My books are all in boxes from my move, but I loved the way Senior Keith described using his doubles in Africa.

drop your blaser and run

"Robert Wilson came up then carrying his short, ugly, shockingly big bored .505 Gibbs and grinning."

quote:

drop your blaser and run

From Horn of the Hunter. Ginny is sitting next to the fire when Ruark and Selby drag in late at night, sweaty, scratched up, bloody, etc. She looks up briefly, takes a look at them, and says,

"Buffalo again. Idiots."

And goes back to her reading. That pretty well sums it up.

“You know I don‟t think I‟d ever be afraid of anything again,”
Macomber said to Wilson

10G:

Well, he should have been.

damn it's hot here.

And here I am, returning to Africa of many faces;.... the sloe-eyed temptress with flowers in her hair who stole my youth and my heart, and left me an old man with a kaleidoscope of conflicting memories of many dashed hopes and some fulfilled dreams. Echols



"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi" Pliny the Elder
There is always something new out of Africa

"Ex Africa semper aliquid antiqui" William York
There is always something old out of Africa

"I let the buffalo decide how to die"!
The most stupid quote uttered by non other than Mark Sullivan.

The biggest fake Africa had the misfortune to endure!

Well not necessary Africa but;

quote:

"Danger not only adds zest to all forms of sport, it also tends to sharpen the faculties and to bring into focus all that is to be seen and heard in a forest. Danger, which is understood, and which you are prepared to face, does not in any way distract from pleasure."

~Jim Corbett

" Git as close as ye can laddie..and then git ten yards closer.." (On elephant hunting)

" Cause they don't make a bloody .700..! " (Oldtimer asked why he dragged along that heavy .600..)

Just read a couple good ones in months of the sun I’ll see if I can find them

A somewhat shortened paraphrase from a longer quote by Sir Alfred Pease:

You go out to Africa hoping to see savages, but only find them upon your return.

Have that one on a table in my office. Fitting for my profession.

Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: That if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers-then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could always recapture the day - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter

Nhoro,

Always liked that one as well. Going back through my pictures, there are an awful lot of flowers.

But the reason my friend Mbogo is generally rated as the toughest piece of all African furniture is that he is a single-minded type. You got to kill him to discourage him. Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter.

“I’d really rather you don’t f#*k up this shot!”

Brian Van Blerk to me before I shot my first lion.

I got to thinking that maybe this is what God had in mind when He invented religion, instead of all the don't and most-nots and sins and confessions of sins. I got to thinking about all the big churches I had been in, including those in Rome, and how none of them could possibly compare with this place, with its brilliant birds and its soothing sounds of intense life all around and the feeling of ineffable peace and goodwill so that not even man would be capable of behaving very badly in such a place. Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter.

Animals are self-centered but honest in their needs. Man, supposedly a higher for of life, is arrogant, conceited, entirely self-satisfying, and thoughtlessly unconcerned and indifferent. Unless something substantially reduces man's destructive power and numbers, you must eventually reach the same conclusions as I have. Ian Nychens, Months of the Sun.

. . . see below.

“Throughout recorded history, Africa has been at least 300 years, if not more, behind the rest of the world. This timelessness, this backwardness, has made Africa both a paradise of nostalgia, and a morass of guilt, for the rest of the world. It has also made Africa a fat, glutton’s feast for its many tribal leaders, and a lasting famine for its long-suffering people.”

Big picture.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
“Throughout recorded history, Africa has been at least 300 years, if not more, behind the rest of the world. This timelessness, this backwardness, has made Africa both a paradise of nostalgia, and a morass of guilt, for the rest of the world. It has also made Africa a fat, glutton’s feast for its many tribal leaders, and a lasting famine for its long-suffering people.”

Hadn't heard that one. Fantastic.

Damn, that's a great quote!

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
“Throughout recorded history, Africa has been at least 300 years, if not more, behind the rest of the world. This timelessness, this backwardness, has made Africa both a paradise of nostalgia, and a morass of guilt, for the rest of the world. It has also made Africa a fat, glutton’s feast for its many tribal leaders, and a lasting famine for its long-suffering people.”

Big picture.

Hasn't changed much either.

Robert Ruark:
"There is a bloody brave little animal called the honey badger in Africa. It may be the meanest animal in the world. It kills for malice and for sport, and it does not go for the jugular-it goes straight for the groin. It has a hell of lot in common with the modern American woman."

If only Francis had read that earlier...

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
“Throughout recorded history, Africa has been at least 300 years, if not more, behind the rest of the world. This timelessness, this backwardness, has made Africa both a paradise of nostalgia, and a morass of guilt, for the rest of the world. It has also made Africa a fat, glutton’s feast for its many tribal leaders, and a lasting famine for its long-suffering people.”

Big picture.

Who wrote this?

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
“Throughout recorded history, Africa has been at least 300 years, if not more, behind the rest of the world. This timelessness, this backwardness, has made Africa both a paradise of nostalgia, and a morass of guilt, for the rest of the world. It has also made Africa a fat, glutton’s feast for its many tribal leaders, and a lasting famine for its long-suffering people.”

Big picture.

Brilliant!

quote:

“Throughout recorded history, Africa has been at least 300 years, if not more, behind the rest of the world. This timelessness, this backwardness, has made Africa both a paradise of nostalgia, and a morass of guilt, for the rest of the world. It has also made Africa a fat, glutton’s feast for its many tribal leaders, and a lasting famine for its long-suffering people.”

One of the best so far.

“All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already."--- Ernest Hemingway

"I could hear the song of Cadillac's rifles in the distance."