Not so quiet Americans

      “Unofficial death warrants have a habit of recoiling,” says he coolly. “My countrymen have one great failing — they talk too much.”


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.335, Harper Collins, 1995.

 
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, talk.

Solemn word

…to this day I have his trick of rubbing one hand across the back of the other (when thinking deeply), and that I entirely lost my own habit of scratching my backside (when puzzled). Royalty – I have Bersonin’s solemn word for it – never claw at their arses to assist thought.

Royal Flash, p.129, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

Tags:
Flashman, Flashman quotes,royalty.