Better be killed than frightened to death. - Robert Smith Surtees

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all that's worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.

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