Quotes by : George MacDonald Fraser

But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to command,....

Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got....

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus....

Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a....

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.....

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began,....

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

I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work –....

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

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance,....