Quotes from Robert Smith Surtees

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

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