Hunting the Most Dangerous Game/Quotes

Thank you for coming. I have purchased the Springfield YMCA. I plan to tear it down, and build a nature preserve where I will hunt the deadliest game of all - Man.

—Rainier Wolfcastle, The Simpsons

And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now,

two Game Wardens, seven hunters and a purebred Guernsey cow.

—Tom Lehrer, "The Hunting Song"

So I guess I'm playing Signeur Rainsford to your General Zaroff.

—Dirk Pitt, Dragon

Hunting humans? That ain’t nuth’n but nuth’n... They all run like scared little vermin in the end. Run vermin run. Run vermin! RUN VERMIN RUN!

—"Doc" Pale addressing the fresh meat, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy

"I wanted the ideal animal to hunt," explained the general. "So I said, 'What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, 'It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason."'
"But no animal can reason," objected Rainsford.

"My dear fellow," said the general, "there is one that can."

—"The Most Dangerous Game"

Anna: When I was little, we found a man. He looked like - like, butchered. The old women in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things, strange things. "El Diablo cazador de hombres." Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year, it grows hot. We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... and sometimes much, much worse. "El cazador que hace trofeo de los hombres" means the hunter who makes trophies of men.

—Predator