Flashman Quotes

#1. I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.

Virginia Henley

#2. I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

George MacDonald Fraser

#3. Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

John Ashcroft

#4. For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.

Jill Soloway

#5. The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

David Hawkins

#6. The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#7. It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

J.C. Ryle

#8. We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.

Peter Greenaway

#9. I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

E. J. Hughes

#10. Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.

Faith Sullivan