ROBERT SMITH SURTEES

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

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

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

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

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.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

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

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

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

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

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

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

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

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

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