Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

• No hay secreto tan íntimo como el que existe entre un jinete y su caballo.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Secret, Riding

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31

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

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Integrity, Hypocrisy, People

  'The Analysis of the Hunting Field' (1846) ch. 1

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• Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

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  Dirty, Hunting, Looks

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

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• The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Hounds

  Citado en Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Zorros

  'Handley Cross' (1843) ch. 16

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• There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

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  Funny, Three, Able

  Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “"Plain Or Ringlets?"”, p.141

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

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  Men, Pockets, Necks

  Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour”, p.197

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• There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Men, Secret

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• Hay quien piensa que a un baile sólo se viene a bailar, cuando todo el mundo sabe que el verdadero negocio de un baile es buscar esposa, cuidar a la esposa o cuidar a la esposa de otro.

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  Dance, Real, Thinking

  'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 56

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• Mejor morir que morir de miedo.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Asustado

  'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32

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• It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Speak, Praise, Dealer

  Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140

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

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  Would Be, Enjoyment, Pleasant

  'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32.

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• La única regla infalible que conocemos es que el hombre que siempre habla de ser un caballero nunca lo es.

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  Men, Talking, Gentleman

  'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1

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• 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.

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  Mean, Men, Flags

  Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”

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• No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

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  Looks, Hats, Know How

  Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne (1865). “Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds”, p.38

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• The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Country, Charm, Cheapness

  Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”

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• Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Names, Wife, Three

  'Hillingdon Hall' (1845) ch. 33

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