Robert Smith Surtees Quotes (16 quotes)

Robert Smith Surtees: 16 quotes0 likes

Famous Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

“Thus attired, with smiles assumed at the door, the young ladies entered the drawing-room in the full fervour of sisterly animosity.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 16

“Mr. Jorrocks then called upon the company in succession for a toast, a song, or a sentiment. Nimrod gave, "The Royal Staghounds"; Crane gave, "Champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends."”

Robert Smith Surtees

Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (1838) ch. 12

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

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 36

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

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Handley Cross (1843), Ch. 18

“It is best to let the horse go his way, and pretend it is yours. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 30

“The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Ask Mamma (1858) ch. 1

Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

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

Robert Smith Surtees

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds ch. 39

“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”

Robert Smith Surtees

The Analysis of the Hunting Field (1846) ch. 1

“Better be killed than frightened to death.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (1865) ch. 39

“He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 24

“When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each man as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 40

“I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all that's worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Handley Cross (1843), Ch. 7

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

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 21

“Untin' fills my thoughts by day, and many a good run I have in my sleep. Many a dig in the ribs I gives Mrs. J. when I think they're runnin' into the warmint…No man is fit to be called a sportsman wot doesn't kick his wife out of bed on a haverage once in three weeks!”

Robert Smith Surtees

Source: Handley Cross (1843), Ch. 11

“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.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Plain or Ringlets? ch. 65

“There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.”

Robert Smith Surtees

Plain or Ringlets? (1860) ch. 40

Similar authors

Lewis Carroll241

English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer None

Matthew Arnold166

English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… None

Elizabeth Barrett Browning88

English poet, author None

Charles Dickens116

English writer and social critic and a Journalist None

George Eliot300

English novelist, journalist and translator None

Emily Brontë151

English novelist and poet None

Joseph Conrad127

Polish-British writer None

Percy Bysshe Shelley246

English Romantic poet None

Charles Caleb Colton38

British priest and writer None

John Ruskin133

English writer and art critic None