... HEX knew that its creators were infinitely cleverer than it was. And great masters of disguise, obviously. (SODW)
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'Oh, obvious,’said Granny. ‘I’ll grant you it’s obvious. Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn’t mean they’re
true.' (WS) 'Foolish child. All you could tell was that he thought he was telling the truth. The world isn’t always as people see it.' (ER)
'I was being persecuted for my beliefs.’
‘That’s terrible,’ said Teppic. Khuft spat. ‘Damn right. I believed people wouldn’t notice I’d sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town.' (P) Miss Butt’s mouth opened and shut. And Susan realized that the woman was actually quite short. She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. (SM)
... it was no good looking inconspicuous unless people could see that you were being inconspicuous. (AM)
Cockbill Street was where people lived who were worse than poor, because they didn’t know how poor they were. If you asked them they would probably say something like ‘mustn’t grumble’ or ‘there’s far worse off than us’ or ‘we’ve always kept uz heads above water and we don’t owe nobody nowt.’
He could here his granny speaking. ‘No one’s too poor to buy soap.’ Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride. (FC) In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewellery and
green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. (GO) ... Hubert is one of those names you can put a shape to. There may well be tall, slim Hubert, Moist would be the first to agree, but this Hubert was shaped like a proper Hubert, which is to say, stubby and plump. (MM)
‘Never pick yourself a name you can’t scrub the floor in.' (Ma)
Never believe what you hear in songs. They put in any old thing if they think it sounds better. (CP)
'You mean you just see things that are really there?’ he said. ‘I can see you haven’t been with the opera for long,
dear.' (Ma) Am I really a bastard or am I just really good at thinking like one? (MM)
'A unicorn is nothing more than a big horse that comes to a point…' (WFM)
'You don’t look insane,’ lied Susan. ‘As such.’
‘Thank you. But sanity is defined by the majority, I am afraid.' (TOT) ... any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn’t about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialised buyer. (LF)
'That would be the senior masters, Master,’ said the Bursar. ‘I would say they are supremely fit, myself.’
‘Fit? The Dean looks like a man who’s swallered a bed!’ ‘Ah, but Master,’ said the Bursar smiling indulgently,‘the word ‘fit’, as I understand it, means ‘appropriate to a purpose,’ and I would say the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals.' (MP) 'Hah! You're uniform doesn't scare me,' he said.
Vimes looked down at his battered breastplate and worn mail. ‘You’re right,’ he said. ‘This is not a scary uniform. I’m sorry. Forward, Corporal Carrot and Lance-Constable Detritus.’ The Assassin was suddenly aware of the sunlight being blocked out. ‘Now these, I think you’ll agree,’ said Vimes, from somewhere behind the eclipse, ‘are scary uniforms.’ (MA) 'Who’s the fat girl on now? Got a backside on her like a bowling ball on a short seesaw.' (SLF)
Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. (GO)
He looked evil in an interesting kind of way, like a pirate who really understood the words "Jolly Roger." (Ma)
There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night.
And it’s important to remember that the creatures of the night aren’t simply the people of the day staying up late because they think that makes them cool and interesting. It takes a lot more than heavy mascara and a pale complexion to cross the divide. (SM) '... a lot of diplomacy lies in appearing to be a lot more stupid than you are.' (FE)
Zoon tribes are very proud of their Liars.
Other races get very annoyed about all this. They feel that the Zoon ought to have adopted more suitable titles, like ‘diplomat’ or ‘public relations officer’. They feel they are poking fun at the whole thing. (ER) The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select. (LL)
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