"Better be killed than frightened to death."

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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