Your vacant gape

“We may agree with Horace, I think — Raro antecedentem scelestrum deseruit pede poena claudo. I see from your vacant gape that you’re no better acquainted with his works than you were on the College, damn you ignorance! So I’ll tell you it means that Justice, though moving slowly, seldom fails to overhaul the fleeing villain.”


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.59, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Religion and ignorance

That’s what comes of religion and keeping women in ignorance.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.130, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.


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Tedious conversation

    ‘If you think you were tortured, Colonel Flashman,’ says he, poker-faced. ‘then I congratulate you on your ignorance.’ He put down his cup. ‘I find this conversation tedious. ‘If you will excuse me,’ and he turned away.
    ‘Oh, sorry if you’re bored,’ says I. ‘I was forgetting – you probably haven’t cut a throat or burned a peasant in a week.’

Flashman in the Great Game, p.46, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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A perfect shield

In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence.


Flashman, p.58, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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