Robert Smith Surtees quotes
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“Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32.
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“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31
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“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'The Analysis of the Hunting Field' (1846) ch. 1
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“There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “"Plain Or Ringlets?"”, p.141
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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.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1
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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...”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 56
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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.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140
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“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21
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“No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour”, p.197
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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.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”
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“No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne (1865). “Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds”, p.38
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“The country has its charms-cheapness for one.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”
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“It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Handley Cross' (1843) ch. 16
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“Better be killed than frightened to death.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32
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“There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse”
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“The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.”
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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