Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

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It is best to let the horse go his way, and pretend it is yours. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Robert Smith Surtees

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

Robert Smith Surtees

When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each man as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly.

Robert Smith Surtees

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

Robert Smith Surtees

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

Robert Smith Surtees

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

Robert Smith Surtees