Everywhere but into mine

“Chelmsford’s wiped out, you say?” The blue eyes looked everywhere but into mine; I wouldn’t have trusted this fellow with the mess funds in a hurry.



Flashman and the Tiger, p.281, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Unimpeachable source

. . . and the source was unimpeachable — I’ve lived with her seventy years, after all, and know that while she may suppress a little veri and suggest a touch of falsi on occasion, Elspeth ain’t a liar.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.254, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Trust to luck

      There's a moment, and I've faced it more often than I care to remember, when you're rat-in-the-corner, all your wriggling and lying and imploring have failed, there's nowhere to run, and your only hope is to do your damnedest and trust to luck and every dirty dodge you know.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.148, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Fine-looking fellows

...they were strapping, fine-looking fellows, but you'd not have trusted either of them to light the fire.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.228, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Lincoln on Flashman

…and you have the seal of the greatest American who ever lived! Didn’t Lincoln say: ‘When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman”?

Flashman and the Redskins, p.260, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Not that far

‘Well, sir,’ says I, ‘like you I wouldn’t trust the Nana as far as the tuck-shop.’

Flashman in the Great Game, p.219, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

A downier bird

There wasn’t a downier bird in all India than Nicholson, or one who knew the country better, and you could have trusted him with anything, money even.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.61, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Knaves and selfish brutes

But politicians are all the same; there’s no trusting them whatever, not only because they’re knaves, but because they’re even more inconsistent than women. Selfish brutes, too.

Flash For Freedom!, p.248, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Ideal partners

‘But that’s the point!’ He clapped his hands. ‘We are the ideal partners – neither of us trusts the other an inch, but we need each other. It’s the only guarantee in any business. You’re as big a rascal as I am; we would sell each other tomorrow, but there isn’t the need.
   Our financiers know all of this, of course, but I’ve often thought that our diplomats and politicians could have gone to school to Professor Starnberg.

Royal Flash, p.220, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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the first rule of politics

‘You don’t know one of the first rules of politics: that a man can be trusted to follow his own interest.’

Flashman, p.152, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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