Flashman's Retreat
Blog URL http://www.flashmansretreat.blogspot.com
Located Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia
Tags Flashman, Flashman quotes, George MacDonald Fraser, historical fiction, quotes, Harry Flashman
Producing a compendium of Flashman quotes, one damned entry at a time
Latest Blog Posts
- You can't fight fate on Nov 19, 2009 in Henry Temple fight fate Viscount Palmerston
…but you can’t fight fate, especially when he’s called Palmerston.Flashman in the Great Game, p.14, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.Tags:Flashman, Flashman quotes,fate, Palmerston.
- Enterprising lads on Nov 19, 2009 in Indian Mutiny William Sherman war John Nicholson campaign Henry Havelock
I’ve seen a deal of war, and agree with Sherman that it’s hell, but the Mutiny was the Seventh Circle under the pit. Of course it had its compensations: for one, I came through it, pretty whole, which is more than Havelock and Harry East and John...
- Long legs and a thumping slice of luck on Nov 18, 2009 in rogue appearances luck long legs soldiering cowardice
…I’ve sweated and scampered through during fifty inglorious years of soldiering. Leastways, I know they were inglorious, but the country don’t, thank heaven, which is why they rewarded me with general rank and the knighthood and a double row of...
- Endless pictures of German royalty on Nov 16, 2009 in Scots kilt Scotland Prince Albert tartan royalty
They don’t often invite me to Balmoral nowadays, which is a blessing; those damned tartan carpets always put me off my food, to say nothing of the endless pictures of German royalty and that unspeakable statue of the Prince Consort standing knock-k...
- At my time of life on Nov 11, 2009 in Central Asia old age east
I’ve too many vivid memories of Central Asia; at my time of life Scarborough is far enough east for me.Flashman at the Charge, p.288, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.Tags:Flashman, Flashman quotes,Central Asia, Scarborough.
- Deeply-felt sentimental mood on Nov 10, 2009 in farewell sentimental emotional sad lonely departure
And then they were thundering away back on the Samarkand road, cloaks flying, and Kutebar turning in the saddle to give me a wave and a roar. And it’s odd – but for a moment I felt lonely, and wondered it I should miss them. It was a deeply-felt...
- A golden road on Nov 9, 2009 in Silk Road travel
‘This is the great Pathway of Expectation, as the hill people say, where you may realize your hopes just by hoping them. The Chinese call it the Baghdad Highway, and the Persians and Hindus know it as the Silk Trail, but we call it the Golden Road.
