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

“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.”

“Better be killed than frightened to death.”

“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.”