Humor Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

““...and suddenly, without the slightest volition on my part, there was the most crashing discharge of wind, like the report of a mortar. My horse started; Cardigan jumped in his saddle, glaring at me…Be Silent! snaps he, and he must have been in a highly nervous condition himself, otherwise he would never have added, in a hoarse whipser: Can you not contain yourself, you disgusting fellow?--Flashman at the start of the Charge of the Light Brigade.””

George MacDonald Fraser

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“In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It”

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“You never know what to expect on encountering royalty. I've seen 'em stark naked except for wings of peacock feathers (Empress of China), giggling drunk in the embrace of a wrestler (Maharani of the Punjab), voluptuously wrapped in wet silk (Queen of Madagascar), wafting to and fro on a swing (Rani of Jhansi), and tramping along looking like an out-of-work…

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“I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.”

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“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies…

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“Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!”

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“I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they…

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There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

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“We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two…

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I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read…

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I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among…

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“Thats what you young chaps have to remember. When u run, RUN! Full speed. Don't dither or dally even for an instant. let terror…

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Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in…

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