22 Quotes by Robert Smith Surtees

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

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

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.

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

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

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