No thought to spare

. . . Flashy in ecstatio has no thought to spare for tottering thrones or collapsing empires, let alone beastly rivals collecting their well-deserved rations.



Flashman on the March, p.99, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Solemn word

…to this day I have his trick of rubbing one hand across the back of the other (when thinking deeply), and that I entirely lost my own habit of scratching my backside (when puzzled). Royalty – I have Bersonin’s solemn word for it – never claw at their arses to assist thought.

Royal Flash, p.129, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Foul thoughts

If you have a foul mind, as I do, you think foul thoughts readier than clean ones…

Flashman, p.267, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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