"There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship."
— George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman and the Mountain of Light)

"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 (Flashman at the Charge)

"If anything she was a shade to plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by-though 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. (page 67)"
— George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman)