Perversely partial

. . . but she was a hearty piece of middle-aged Eve’s flesh of no remarkable allure — that she appealed to me was by the way; I’m a connoisseur of feminine beauty but no discrimination worth a dam, and anyway I’m perversely partial to royal rattle.


Flashman on the March, p.168, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, royal.

Blinking in the sun

…while I, making an even greater show of impatience than my brother-officers, was secretly well content to rest at ease, blinking in the sun and eating mangoes, to which I’m partial.

Flashman in the Great Game, pp.241-2, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

Tags:
Flashman, Flashman quotes.