George Macdonald Fraser Inspirational Quotes (4)

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

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

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

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.