Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 17, 1805 Death: March 16, 1864
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more..
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name..
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 ….
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting..
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 amou….
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.
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments..
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable..
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket..
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one..
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat..
The country has its charms-cheapness for one..
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves..
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both..
Better be killed than frightened to death..