Flandry, winning at dice on Scotha, where he is told that he has the luck of the damned, cynically parodies a saying from Home:
"'Say that fortune favors the weak,' he purred." (p. 263)
The weak? Flandry continues:
"'The strong don't need it, highness.'" (ibid.)
He simultaneously flatters and manipulates Prince Torric.
For "Fortune favours the brave," see here.
For other one-liners, including another parody, see here.
Another guy I knew said, "When you're young, you hear people say things. When you get older, you learn what they mean." The example that he had in mind was an old Lancashire saying:
"There's nowt so queer as folk."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I always enjoy rereading "Tiger by the Tail," because of how it shows Flandry so shrewdly and deftly outwitting and out maneuvering the Scothans! The original version of this story was the very first of Anderson's works I read, in the 1965 Chilton Books edition of AGENT OF THE TERRAN EMPIRE.
Ad astra! Sean
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