‘Indeed? Then if I were you I’d sue my face for slander’. (COM)
‘I assure you the thought never crossed my mind, lord.’
‘Indeed? Then if I were you I’d sue my face for slander’. (COM)
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No self-respecting wizard would be seen in public without a pointy hat. But it could make going through low doorways a bit tricky, so they often developed bad knees in later life due to all the crouching down. (DCC)
He was, Marjorie considered, one of the most useful people: a house-trained near-nerd, conscientious to the point of insanity but not any further, apparently. (JD)
'Act your age, Gytha.’
‘Act? Don’t have to act, can do it automatic,’ said Nanny. ‘Acting half my age…now that’s the difficult trick.' (LL) 'Everybody knows trolls eat people and spit them out. Everybody knows dwarfs cut off your legs. But at the same time everybody knows that what everybody knows is wrong.' (UA)
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)
She just looked the look of a wife who was putting up with her husband's funny little ways for which he would suffer in the boudoir later. (RS)
Moist forced his face to go so deadpan that it might have actually been dead. (RS)
She didn’t look like a mass murderer, but Linsay recalled that mass murderers never did. (LE)
People thought that a ragged face was a sign of a professional boxer, but it wasn’t – it was a sign of an amateur boxer. Good boxers liked to be pretty; it put the contenders off their guard. (Do)
The man’s face so assiduously betrayed nothing that it betrayed everything. (Sn)
'I was unfortunately born clever, miss, and I've learned that sometimes it's not such a good idea to be all that clever.' (ISWM)
'The best disguise for a witch is a rather cheap witch's outfit!' (ISWM)
'Well, as a lawyer I can tell you that something that looks very simple indeed can be incredibly complicated, especially if I'm being paid by the hour. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.' (ISWM)
'Beauty can be considered to be neutral, sir. It is not the same as nice or good.' (UA)
Like many large people, she could move as quietly as the balloon she resembled. (UA)
She was, of course, beautiful. You seldom saw a goddess portrayed as ugly. This probably had something to do with their ability to strike people down instantly. (UA)
Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out. (UA)
A wizard may be safely defined as a large ego which comes to a point at the top. That is why wizards do not blend well. That would mean looking like other people, and wizards do not wish to look like other people. Wizards aren’t other people. (TG)
A wizard would sooner go without his robe and trousers than forgo his hat. Without his hat, people might think he was an ordinary person. (IT)
When it comes to glittering objects, wizards have all the taste and self-control of a deranged magpie. (S)
The Rite of AshkEnte, quite simply, summons and binds Death. Students of the occult will be aware that it can be performed with a simple incantation, three small bits of wood and 4cc of mouse blood, but no wizard worth his pointy hat would dream of doing anything so unimpressive; they knew in their hearts that if a spell didn’t involve big yellow candles, lots of rare incense, circles drawn on the floor with eight different colours of chalk and a few cauldrons around the place then it simply wasn’t worth contemplating. (M)
Gander looked at the lad in question. He had met a good many wizards in his time and considered himself a good judge and he had to admit that this boy looked like good wizard material. In other words, he was thin, gangling, pale from reading disturbing books in unhealthy rooms, and had watery eyes like two lightly-poached eggs. (ER)
Granny suffered from robustly healthy teeth, which she considered a big drawback in a witch. She really envied Nanny Annaple, the witch over the mountain, who managed to lose all her teeth by the time she was twenty and had real crone-credibility. It meant you ate a lot of soup, but you also get a lot of respect. (ER)
'Ah,’ said Clodpool, with an expression that he thought made hime look wise, although in reality it made him look like someone remembering a painful bowel movement. (TOT)
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