Robert Smith Surtees
Robert Smith Surtees
Robert Smith Surteeswas an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
would-be enjoyment pleasant
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
frightened
Better be killed than frightened to death.
speak praise dealer
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
hats looks knows
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
names wife three-things
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
men talking gentleman
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
men necks pockets
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
mean men demand
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.
horse men secret
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
foxes
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
country charm cheapness
The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
able three lawyer
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
horse hounds
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.
dance real thinking
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 look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife...