If she was drowning and you threw her a rope she’d complain if it was the wrong colour ... (W)
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‘Sooner or later every curse is a prayer.’ (W)
Some people took it personally when they were blown to bits. (OYCSM)
Unfortunately, Unity did not seem to have mastered some of the subtleties of human conversation, such as when a time of voice means 'Stop this line of inquiry right now or may huge rats eat you by day and by night.' (TOT)
... the Nac Mac Feegle should only be called fairies to their face if you were looking for a fight. (HFS)
Three indeeds used by a person in one brief speech generally meant an internal spring was about to break. (TT)
Mrs Scorbic was permanently angry, in the same way mountains are permanently large. (CJ)
Sometimes you needed a bastard. (FC)
Ridcully was beginning to show certain signs. If he had been a volcano, natives living nearby would be looking for a handy virgin. (SM)
‘Pirates have a very monotonous diet, which might be why they’re angry all the time.’ (AM)
The period of time it takes a pictsie to go from normal to mad fighting mood is so tiny it can't be measured on the smallest clock. (WFM)
… when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. (MA)
Being dead didn’t mean you couldn’t get angry, oh no. (SC)
Rincewind looked down at him and grinned slowly. It was a wide, manic and utterly humourless rictus. It was the sort of grin that is normally accompanied by small riverside birds wandering in and out, picking scraps out of the teeth. (COM)
The Queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which year after year do nothing very much but smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation. (RS)
… Jacob gave the kind of explosive snort that only an offended Jewish tradesman could make, even more expressive than a Frenchman on a very bad day. (Do)
Even a witch can be out-looked by a cat that has had it up to here …. (ISWM)
The problem with getting angry at Nac Mac Feegles was that it was like getting angry at cardboard or the weather; it didn't make any difference. (ISWM)
Nothing cleans stubborn stains like suppressed anger. (UA)
Ponder was a clear logical thinker who, in times of mental confusion, fell back on reason and honesty, which, when dealing with an angry Archchancellor, were to use the proper academic term, unhelpful. And he neglected to think strategically, always a mistake when talking to fellow academics, and as a result made the mistake of employing, as at this point, common sense. (UA)
'... She Reminded Him Of Lela The Volcano Goddess, Who Smokes All The Time Because The God Of Rain Has Rained On Her Lava,’ the golem went on.
‘Yes, but women always complain about that sort of thing,’ said Moist. (GP) ... if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn’t understand you it’s someone who understands you perfectly, before you’ve had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood. (Dig)
And he’s mastered policing as it is practised by the majority of forces in the universe, which is, basically, screaming angrily at people until they give in. (FC)
... any creature created with the body of a lion, bosom of a woman and wings of an eagle has a serious identity crisis and doesn’t need much to make it angry. (P)
... being turned in to something small and sticky often offends. (W)
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