Robert Smith Surtees: Man

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“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

“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

“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

“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