George MacDonald Fraser

Author

1925-04-02

Quotes by George MacDonald Fraser

• If 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 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• If 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 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.

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

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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