Curmudgeon at the club

...and I wasn't displeased myself. T'isn't every day you play a part in one of the great journalistic coups, and whenever I see some curmudgeon at the club cursing at the labour of cutting open his Times and then complaining there's no news in the dam' thing. I think, aye, you should see what goes to the making of those paragraphs you take for granted, my boy.


Flashman and the Tiger, pp.42-3, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Tricky villains

…I liked him, you see, in spite of his being a journalist. Tricky villains, especially if they work for The Times.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.13, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A journalistic law

… it’s a journalistic law, you see, that heroes can never do anything ordinary; when Flashy, the Hector of Afghanistan, beats a reluctant retreat, there must be an army howling at his heels, or the public cancel their subscription.



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, pp.335-36, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Poster boy Flashy

Well, I’ve always said, if you get the Press on your side you’re half way there.

Flashman at the Charge, p.114, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Beat the drum

…and when the press starts to beat the drum and the public are clamouring for the foreigner’s blood to be spilled – by someone other than themselves – they have a habit of looking around for their old champions.

Flashman at the Charge, p.12, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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