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.
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting. - Robert Smith Surtees
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
- Robert Smith Surtees
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name. - Robert Smith Surtees
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat. - Robert Smith Surtees
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more. - Robert Smith Surtees
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both. - Robert Smith Surtees
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse - Robert Smith Surtees
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable. - Robert Smith Surtees
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. - Robert Smith Surtees
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments. - Robert Smith Surtees
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
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