Robert Smith Surtees famous quotes

03-28-2025

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Would Be #Enjoyment #Pleasant
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Horse #Secret #Riders
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Integrity #Hypocrisy #People
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Able #Three #Lawyer
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Men #Talking #Gentleman
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

#Dance #Real #Thinking
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Speak #Praise #Dealer
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Dirty #Hunting #Looks
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Men #Necks #Pockets
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

#Mean #Men #Demand
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Looks #Hats
The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Country #Charm #Cheapness
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Foxes
Better be killed than frightened to death.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Frightened
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Horse #Men #Secret
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Horse #Hounds

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