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.

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.