Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC

“I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!”
― Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

“God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother."
No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There are basic things you learn when your parents run a planet.”
― Mike Shepherd, Mutineer

“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.”
― Charles Fletcher Lummis

“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door.
I am in the house, and I have the key.”
― Charles Lummis