George MacDonald Fraser Quotes

• The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Ignorance, Two, Political

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• There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Treachery, Knows, Statesmanship

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman and the Mountain of Light”, p.195, Penguin

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• If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Making Love, Mind, Shade

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• En tiempos de horror y tormento la oración es una gran cosa Nadie responde Pero al menos te impide pensar.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Prayer, Thinking, Answers

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• He sido un príncipe danés, un traficante de esclavos de Texas, un jeque árabe, un perro soldado cheyenne y un teniente de la marina yanqui, entre otras cosas, y ninguna de ellas fue tan difícil de mantener como mi imitación de toda la vida de un oficial y caballero británico.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Religious, Men, Lessons

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.90, Penguin

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