Robert Smith Surtees

"The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one."

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

"There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable."

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

"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…"

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

"'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 wo…"

"Better be killed than frightened to death."