Robert Smith Surtees Quotes
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
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.
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
