Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

#1. No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

Robert Smith Surtees

#2. Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance;
whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball
is to look out for a wife,
to look after a wife,
or to look after someone else's wife ...

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#3. It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

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#4. Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

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#5. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#6. There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

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#7. The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

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#8. No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

Robert Smith Surtees

#9. Better be killed than frightened to death.

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#10. There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

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#11. The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

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#12. Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

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#13. It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

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#14. More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

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#15. The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

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#16. Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Robert Smith Surtees