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

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Source : Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne (1865). “Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds”, p.38

Robert Smith Surtees

#Looks Quotes #Hats Quotes

“Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.”
“I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that's pretty sweet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.”
“One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.”
“Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.”
“We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my family culture, where it's not even an ethical thing, it's just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.”
“Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?”
“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.”

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