George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSLwas a Scottish author who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 April 1925
jargon seldom stands
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
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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.
treachery knows statesmanship
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
making-love mind shade
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.