Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

Robert Smith Surtees Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

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

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

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

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

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