Best 11 quotes of Robert Smith Surtees on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

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

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

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

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.

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