Top 34 George Macdonald Fraser 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. . . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.
George MacDonald Fraser
#3. And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.
Jude Morgan
#4. God saved us so that we could become servants of his will and dedicate ourselves to what he wants us to do
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
George MacDonald Fraser
#6. 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 the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen ... go wrong
George MacDonald Fraser
#7. We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
George MacDonald Fraser
#8. Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off.
"Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I'd never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint.
George MacDonald Fraser
#9. I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.
George MacDonald Fraser
#10. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.
Zen Cho
#11. 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.
George MacDonald Fraser
#12. The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
George MacDonald Fraser
#13. Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
#14. Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar.
George MacDonald Fraser
#15. Meg nodded. She didn't understand the feeling, but she turned the words into a kind of image that she could recall later. "Anyway,
Anne Bishop
#16. In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It
George MacDonald Fraser
#18. What is overlooked is the astonishing amount of history Hollywood has got right ... For better or worse, nothing has been more influential in shaping our visions of the past than the commercial cinema.
George MacDonald Fraser
#19. Before falling to the scythe the weeds enjoy a little breeze.
Peter Levitt
#20. It's just that if I'd had any guts at all, I wouldn't have gone back to college at all this year. I don't know. I mean it's all the most incredible farce.
J.D. Salinger
#21. It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
George MacDonald Fraser
#22. Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.
Tony McCoy
#23. 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 other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.
George MacDonald Fraser
#24. I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
David Walliams
#26. I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.
George MacDonald Fraser
#27. Now Malcolm was back again, but he came once too often, and was killed at Alnwick in 1093.
George MacDonald Fraser
#28. I bolted upright in my bed, gasping for air and still feeling his touch on my hand. I could feel him watching me. I could feel him waiting for me.
Dana Michelle Burnett
#29. I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
George MacDonald Fraser
#30. If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#32. My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
Ellen Goodman
#33. 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
#34. There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
George MacDonald Fraser
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