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Screaming for England
I’d been a political myself, and it’s part of the job to scream at your own shadow…Flashman in the Great Game, p.31, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.Tags:Flashman, Flashman quotes,scream, shadow....
Princes or prime ministers
I should have known that it’s never safe to get within range of princes or prime ministers.Flashman in the Great Game, p.28, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.Tags:Flashman, Flashman quotes,princes, prime ministers....
Bare-faced and grinning
That was Pam - and if anyone ever tells you that he was a politically unprincipled old scoundrel who carried things with a high and reckless hand, I can only say that it didn’t seem to work a whit worse than the policies of more high-minded state...
Genteel strong man
…there was the messenger of doom, waiting in the hall. A tall chap, almost a swell, but with a jaw too long and an eye too sharp; very respectable, with a hard hat under his arm and a billy in his hip-pocket, I’ll wager. I know a genteel strong ...
Time and trouble
For the rest, I thought La Nightingale a waste of good womanhood; handsome face, well set up and titted out, but with that cold don’t-lay-a-lecherous-limb-on-me-my-lad look in her eye – the kind, in short, that can be all right if you’re prepar...
Drive a woman to fury
…he and Victoria weren’t getting on too well just then; she had just discovered (and confided to Elspeth) that she was in foal for the ninth time, and she took her temper out on dear Albert – the trouble was, he was so bloody patient with her, ...
