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George MacDonald Fraser Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

George MacDonald Fraser
Prayer, Thinking, Answers

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

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

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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