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“Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32.
#Would Be Quotes
#Enjoyment Quotes
#Pleasant Quotes
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“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31
#Horse Quotes
#Secret Quotes
#Riders Quotes
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“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'The Analysis of the Hunting Field' (1846) ch. 1
#Integrity Quotes
#Hypocrisy Quotes
#People Quotes
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“There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “"Plain Or Ringlets?"”, p.141
#Able Quotes
#Three Quotes
#Lawyer Quotes
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“The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1
#Men Quotes
#Talking Quotes
#Gentleman Quotes
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“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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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 56
#Dance Quotes
#Real Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“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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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140
#Speak Quotes
#Praise Quotes
#Dealer Quotes
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“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21
#Dirty Quotes
#Hunting Quotes
#Looks Quotes
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“No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour”, p.197
#Men Quotes
#Necks Quotes
#Pockets Quotes
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“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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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”
#Mean Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Demand Quotes
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“No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne (1865). “Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds”, p.38
#Looks Quotes
#Hats Quotes
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“The country has its charms-cheapness for one.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”
#Country Quotes
#Charm Quotes
#Cheapness Quotes
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“It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Handley Cross' (1843) ch. 16
#Foxes Quotes
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“Better be killed than frightened to death.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32
#Frightened Quotes
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“There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse”
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Robert Smith Surtees
#Horse Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Secret Quotes
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“The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.”
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Robert Smith Surtees
Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
#Horse Quotes
#Hounds Quotes
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