1:1 Flashman's First Law of Economics: The time to beware of a pretty woman is not when you're flush of cash (well, you know what she's after, and what's a bankroll more or less?), but when you're short of the scratch, and she offers to set you right. Because it ain't natural, and God knows what she's up to.

3:1 Flashman's First Law of Adversity: Once your essentials are properly trapped in the mangle there's nothing for it but to holler with a good grace and wait until they roll you out again. Not that hollering does any good, but it relieves the feelings

4:49 Flashman on hitting women: I bar hitting women, except for fun ...

7:5 Flashman in a daze while looking at a beautiful women trys to decide if he was awake or dreaming: Just for a moment I wondered if I was dreaming, but she was fully-cad, so it seemed unlikely.

9:9 Flashman on the important things in life: Well, I always say, credit and cash, you can never have too much of either ...

9:88 Flashman describes a picture of Jesus drawn by his son Havvy (who would become a Bishop): ... eleven years old the little brute was, and apparently thought Chirst had a green face and feathers in his hair.

10:54 Flashman on thieves: ... he who steals my purse may get away with it, but he who fliches from me my good name will surely find his tits in the wringer.

12:95 Flashman describes the conditions of an Australian Ideal (woman): ... immensely rich, stunningly beautiful, highly-skilled professional amorist with the sexual appetite of a pagan priestess and owner of a public house.