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Quotes from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour — Robert Smith Surtees

1805–1864 England

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6 quotes

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

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853)

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

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853)

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

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853)

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.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853)

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

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853)

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.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Smith Surtees (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.