A notorious wastrel

When you're a queen of unblemished virtue, devoted to Duty and the high moral tone, and your son and Heir to the Throne is a notorious wastrel who counts all time lost when he ain't stuffing, swilling, sponging off rich toad-eaters and rogering anything in skirts, you're apt to be censorious . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.213, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Well, it worked for Shane Warne

…even Brown pumped me by the hand and slapped me on the shoulder, yelling ‘Bowled, oh well bowled, Flashy!’ (You see the moral: cover ever strumpet in London if you’ve a mind to, it don’t signify so long as you can take wickets).

Flashman's Lady, p.31, Pan edition, 1979.

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Morality tale

The moral is: don’t put on airs in front of Flashy, and if you do, keep your crinolines out of harm’s way.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.21, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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I was sober, so I toadied

If you’re morally as soft as butter, as I am, with a good streak of the toad-eater in you, there’s no doing anything with people like Bismarck. You can have all the fame that I had then , and the good looks and the inches and the swagger – and I had those, too – but you know you’re dirt to him. If you have to tangle with him, as the Americans say, you know you’ll have to get drunk first; I was sober, so I toadied.

Royal Flash, p.28, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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When Harry met Otto

I conceived an instant dislike for him. It was not only his manner and his words, but the look of him. He was big, as big as I was, slim-hipped and broad-shouldered, but he was also damned handsome. He had bright grey eyes and one of those clean-cut faces beneath fair hair that makes you think of moral norse Gods, too splendid altogether to be in the company of the beauty beside him.

Royal Flash, p.20, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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