Fraser Seitel Quotes

#1. Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. #Quote by Brendan Fraser

#2. It's very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop. #Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

#3. I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. #Quote by Antonia Fraser

#4. I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents. #Quote by Dawn Fraser

#5. Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees. #Quote by James O. Fraser

#6. We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. #Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

#7. Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. #Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

#8. Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms. #Quote by Jennifer Ashley

#9. Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help. #Quote by Malcolm Fraser

#10. My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too
enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#11. These people looking for efficiencies have no understanding that governments have to do things you can't put a dollar on #Quote by Malcolm Fraser

#12. If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot. #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#13. The ninth Earl of Ellesmere had his chin thrust out as far as it would go, but the defiant look in his eye was tempered with a certain doubt as he intercepted Jamie's cold blue gaze. Jamie set the horse's hoof down slowly, just as slowly stood up, and drawing himself to his full height of six feet four, put his hands on his , looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, No. #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#14. How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back."
The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen.
"I swallowed it," Fraser said.
Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece.
"I see," he said.
"I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again. #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#15. . . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time. #Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

#16. I wish I could have fought him for you," he said abruptly, looking back at me. His blue eyes were dark and earnest.
I smiled at him, touched.
"It wasn't your fight, it was mine. But you won it anyway." I reached out a hand, and he squeezed it.
"Aye, but that's not what I meant. If I'd fought him man to man and won, ye'd not need to feel any regret over it." He hesitated. "If ever - "
"There aren't any more ifs," I said firmly. "I thought of every one of them yesterday, and here I still am."
"Thank God," he said, smiling, "and God help you." Then he added, "Though I'll never understand why."
I put my arms around his waist and held on as the horse slithered down the last steep slope.
"Because," I said, "I bloody well can't do without you, Jamie Fraser, and that's all about it. #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#17. Katherine turned back to Irena. 'He's #Quote by Emma Fraser

#18. But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation. #Quote by John Allen Fraser

#19. It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time. #Quote by Laura Fraser

#20. As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm. #Quote by Sylvia Fraser

#21. very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to #Quote by Antonia Fraser

#22. Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar. #Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

#23. I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#24. The men in my life are always like the countries I visit: I fall in love briefly and then move on. I visit, regard the wonders, delve into the history, taste the cooking, peer into dark corners, feel a few moments of excitement and maybe ecstasy and bliss, and then, though I am often sad to leave - or stung that no one insists that I stay - I am on my way. #Quote by Laura Fraser

#25. I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine ... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal. #Quote by Sylvia Fraser

#26. I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth. #Quote by James O. Fraser

#27. I wrap my mind around pain till it smothers in its own scream. (101) #Quote by Sylvia Fraser

#28. Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends #Quote by Fraser Young

#29. Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could eat it, but would the inconvenience of swallowing be worth it? #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#30. I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story. #Quote by Laura Fraser

#31. The house swallowed them. Dylan put his hands on Kim's and Liam's shoulders. "The Goddess bless you both." He kissed Kim's forehead. "Thank you Kim."
He smiled and walked away. Liam watched him, his heart full.
"Is he thanking me for getting pregnant?" Kim asked. "It wasn't difficult, with all the sex we kept having. You did as much as I did. #Quote by Jennifer Ashley

#32. The bald unpalatable fact is emphasized that the Highlands and Islands are largely a devastated terrain, and that any policy which ignores this fact cannot hope to achieve rehabilitation. #Quote by Frank Fraser Darling

#33. Oh. It's Fraser. James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser." He pronounced it formally, each name slow and distinct. Completely flustered, I said "Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp," and stuck out my hand idiotically. Apparently taking this as a plea for support, he took the hand and tucked it firmly into the crook of his elbow. Thus inescapably pinioned, I squelched up the path to my wedding. #Quote by Diana Gabaldon

#34. 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. #Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

#35. The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle. #Quote by Brendan Fraser