Robert Smith Surtees: Goodness

Robert Smith Surtees was English writer. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

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“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

“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