Our Russian friends

‘And I learned a thing or two from our Russian friends — confuse, alarm, bewilder. If you haven’t got a good case, it’s worth more than dishonest juryman.’



Mr American, p.391, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.


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Wings to my wits

      There’s no doubt about it, I’m good at dealing with barmy savages. They scare the bile out of me, and perhaps terror lends wings to my wits, for when i think of the monsters I’ve conversed with and come away with a whole skin, more or less . . . Mangas Colorado, Ranavalona, General Sang-kol-in-sin, Crazy Horse, Dr. Arnold, God knows who else . . . well, it took more than luck, I can tell you. You must know when to grovel and scream for mercy, but also when to take ’em aback with impudence or argument or pure bamboozle.


Flashman on the March, pp.189-90, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.



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A quartermaster’s nightmare

      It was a quartermaster’s nightmare, too much gear coming ashore too quickly and nowhere to put it, with confusion worse confounded by the milling mob of what someone called the “pierhead democracy” . . .


Flashman on the March, p.28, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.



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As it is today

Hell of a place, Mexico, and dam’ confused.


Flashman on the March, p.4, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Flashman on religion

…I’ve never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.127, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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