Stealing best

“Quoting Shakespeare, Oscar?” says I. “Pity you don’t crib him more often. Get better notices, what? My dear,” says I to Selly, “this is Mr Wilde, who write comic material for the halls.”


Flashman and the Tiger, p.290, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Bright swords

As the black chap said in Shakespeare’s play, ’tis better as it is.



Flashman and the Tiger, p.267, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Always the romantic

…where’s the fun if it’s all too easy, I told myself, and set to scheme how I might bring the lady to the sticking point, as we Shakespeare scholars say.

Flash For Freedom!, p.29, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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