Robert Smith Surtees Quotes & Sayings

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves. — Robert Smith Surtees

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both. — Robert Smith Surtees

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat. — Robert Smith Surtees

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting. — Robert Smith Surtees

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. — Robert Smith Surtees

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket. — Robert Smith Surtees

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more. — Robert Smith Surtees

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. — Robert Smith Surtees

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable. — Robert Smith Surtees

The country has its charms-cheapness for one. — Robert Smith Surtees

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments. — Robert Smith Surtees

There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse — Robert Smith Surtees

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 ... — Robert Smith Surtees

Better be killed than frightened to death. — Robert Smith Surtees

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name. — Robert Smith Surtees

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees