1.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
Robert Smith Surtees
2.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Robert Smith Surtees
3.
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
4.
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
Robert Smith Surtees
5.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
Robert Smith Surtees
6.
Better be killed than frightened to death.
Robert Smith Surtees
7.
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
Robert Smith Surtees
8.
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.
Robert Smith Surtees
9.
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
Robert Smith Surtees
10.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Robert Smith Surtees
11.
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
12.
The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
Robert Smith Surtees
13.
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
Robert Smith Surtees
14.
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
Robert Smith Surtees
15.
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
Robert Smith Surtees
16.
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
Robert Smith Surtees
17.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
Robert Smith Surtees