There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
George MacDonald FraserIn times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.
George MacDonald FraserI'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 FraserLooking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.
George MacDonald FraserIf anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store byโthough mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.
George MacDonald Fraser