Robert Smith Surtees Quotes
- 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.
- There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
- There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
- 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.
- It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
- 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.