George MacDonald Fraser famous quotes

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Treachery #Statesmanship

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.
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Making Love #Mind #Shade

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
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Religious #Men #Lessons

I'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 Fraser

#Dog #Yankees #Texas

Looking 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 Fraser

#Order #Years #Ideas

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Ignorance #Two #Political

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Prayer #Thinking #Answers

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

The treacheries of ambition never cease.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.