Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Hand raised
He stood in his stirrups, a hand raised. “The blessing of God upon you brave woman. And the blessing also on you, Ras Flashman, and His mercy and peace.” He wheeled his horse, and as he passed Gorilla Jane and the shattered wreck of Goram, he added: “Throw him on the fire.” So they did.
Flashman on the March, p.192, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Orders from the top
...quem te Deus esse jussit.*
*What God commanded you to be.
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.56, Harper Collins, 1995.
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Thursday, 14 July 2011
Fatal breed
It’s the odd thing about deadly men — they’re all addicted to either God or the Devil, and I ain’t sure but the holy ones aren’t the more fatal breed of the two.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.277, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.
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Friday, 1 July 2011
When the swells
I didn’t care for this — when the swells start sending their valuables down the road, God help the rest of us.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.253, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.
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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Flashman on religion
…I’ve never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.127, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
Suppressing wickedness
‘Oh, aye – we hear much of them, and how the company suppressed their wickedness. And why – because they slew travellers, or was it because they served a Hindoo god and so offended the Christian Company?’ She eyed me contemptuously. ‘Belike had the Thugs been Jesus-worshippers, they would have been roaming yet – especially if they had chosen Hindoo victims.’
You can’t argue with gross prejudice, so I looked amiable…
Flashman in the Great Game, p.91, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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Monday, 4 January 2010
Full of zeal and athirst for glory
…he was one of your play-up-and-fear-God paladins, full of zeal and athirst for glory, was John, and said his prayers and didn’t drink and thought women were either nuns or mothers.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.61, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009
A quiet morning for Flashman
…I was lounging in the camp’s little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camel knows the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer…
Flashman at the Charge, p.251, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.
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Monday, 24 August 2009
A comforting thought
…the advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I’ll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It’s a comforting thought.
Flashman at the Charge, p.150, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.
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Friday, 16 May 2008
Strange and manifold
It was at one of these matches that I first saw Shah Sujah, the king, who had come down as the guest of McNaghton. He was a portly, brown-bearded man who stood gravely contemplating the game, and when McNaghton asked him how he liked it, said:
'Strange and manifold are the ways of God.'
Flashman, p.88, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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