Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

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.

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

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Better be killed than frightened to death.