Fatal breed

It’s the odd thing about deadly men — they’re all addicted to either God or the Devil, and I ain’t sure but the holy ones aren’t the more fatal breed of the two.



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.277, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Addressing heaven on my behalf

I don’t know what it is about me but holy fellows like Nicholson were forever addressing heaven on my behalf – even those who didn’t know me well enough to sense that there was a lot of hard graft to be done if Flashy was ever to smell salvation.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.64, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Songs and dreams

‘All holy songs are made of dreams,’ says he.

Flashman at the Charge, p.286, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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