Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts

Friday, 2 September 2011

Lecherous offal



“Aye, fronti nulla fides* might ha’ been coined for you, you lecherous offal!”


*There is no faith to be placed in the countenance



Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.40, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Lincoln on Flashman



…and you have the seal of the greatest American who ever lived! Didn’t Lincoln say: ‘When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman”?


Flashman and the Redskins, p.260, Pan Books edition, 1983.




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Monday, 14 September 2009

Cryptic sayings



‘Put no faith in women, and as much in the Chinese,’ says Kutebar cryptically.



Flashman at the Charge, p.221, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.




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