Art criticism the Flashman way

‘In my youth, if a lady of quality had expressed her opinion* — as she has a perfect right to do — d’you think she’d have been dragged before a magistrate? Certainly not! She’d have been sent down to the country for a rest, her father would have bought the damned painting, her brother would have horse whipped the artist and that’d be that!’


* i.e. Attacking a painting with a meat cleaver (Speedicut)


Mr American, p.391, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.


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Character and abilities

      When I think of the number of eminent men — and women — who have taken me at face value, and formed a high opinion of my character and abilities, it makes me tremble for my country’s future.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.352, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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