Rooster on a dunghill

“My, what a dunghill rooster we’ve grown, to be sure!”


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.60, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Club members

      I’d never seen this before, although I’ve seen it more times than I care to count since – one man, mad as a hatter and drunk with pride, sweeping sane heads away against their better judgement. Chinese Gordon could do it, and Yakub Beg the Kirghiz; so could J.E.B. Stuart, and that almighty maniac George Custer. They and Brooke could have formed a club.

Flashman's Lady, p.139, Pan edition, 1979.

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I’m harmless, by comparison

Mind you. I’m harmless, by comparison – I don’t send ’em off, stuffed with lies and rubbish, to get killed or maimed for nothing except a politician’s vanity or a manufacturer’s profit. Oh, I’ll sham it with the best in public, and sport my tinware, but I know what I am, and there’s no room for honest pride in me, you see. But if there was – just a little bit, along with the disgust and hatred and selfishness – I’d keep it for them, those seven hundred British sabres.

Flashman at the Charge, p.123, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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A terrible thing

It is a terrible thing to have ideals and a conscience, to say nothing of professional pride.

Royal Flash, p.47, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Hellish thing

Pride is a hellish thing; without it there isn’t any jealousy or ambition.

Flashman, p.279, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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No place for Flashman

I take some pride when I think back to that moment; while the others started forward instinctively to aid McNaghten, I alone kept my head. This was no place for Flashman, and I saw only one way out.

Flashman, p.159, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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