Robert Smith Surtees Inspirational Quotes (6)

Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife.

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

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

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

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Better be killed than frightened to death.