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

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.

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

Three things I never lends – my ’oss, my wife, and my name.

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

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.

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

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...