The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

ibs I gives Mrs J when I think they’re running into the warmint (renewed cheers). No man is fit
to be called a sportsman wot doesn’t kick his wife out of bed on a haverage once in three weeks!
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 11
Tell me a man’s a fox-hunter, and I loves him at once.
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 11
I’ll fill hup the chinks wi’ cheese.
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 15
Well did that great man, I think it was Sir Walter Scott, but if it warn’t, ’twas little Bartley, the
bootmaker, say, that there was no young man wot would not rather have a himputation on his
morality than on his ’ossmanship.
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 16
It ar’n’t that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the ’ound more.
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 16
Unless a man has a good many servants, he had better have them cleanin’ his ’oss than cleanin’
his breeches.
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 27
Three things I never lends—my ’oss, my wife, and my name.
‘Hillingdon Hall’ (1845) ch. 33
Every man shouting in proportion to the amount of his subscription.
‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities’ (1838) no. 1 ‘Swell and the Surrey’
Jorrocks, who is not afraid of ‘the pace’ so long as there is no leaping.
‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities’ (1838) no. 1 ‘Swell and the Surrey’
Champagne certainly gives one werry gentlemanly ideas, but for a continuance, I don’t know
but I should prefer mild hale.
‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities’ (1838) no. 9 ‘Mr Jorrocks in Paris’
Better be killed than frightened to death.
‘Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds’ (1865) ch. 32
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
‘Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds’ (1865) ch. 32.
These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance; whereas
everyone knows that the real business of a ball is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife,
or to look after somebody else’s wife.
‘Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds’ (1865) ch. 56
The young ladies entered the drawing-room in the full fervour of sisterly animosity.
‘Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour’ (1853) ch. 17
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
‘Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour’ (1853) ch. 21
He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.
‘Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour’ (1853) ch. 24
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.