22 Quotes by Robert Smith Surtees

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

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

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.

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

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.