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 you had to talk, even if it was only because you’d run out of things to throw. (OYCSM)
... Rust was always a man to interrupt an answer with a demand for the answer he was in fact interrupting. (NW)
'... they know they're on the right side because if they are on it it must be the right side, by definition...' (TT)
And something that distinguishes the Mr Windlings of the universe is the term 'in my humble opinion', which they think adds weight to their statements rather than indicating, in reality, 'these are the mean little views of someone with the social grace of duckweed'. (TT)
Three indeeds used by a person in one brief speech generally meant an internal spring was about to break. (TT)
'Dwarfs are very argumentative, sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree.' (FE)
He was aware that he had their full attention, something that wizards did not often give. Usually they defined 'listening' as a period in which you worked out what you were going to say next. It was disconcerting. (LC)
'... to save time, shall we pretend we've had the argument and I won?' (N)
Another thing about Grandmother was her belief that a conversation consisted of someone else listening to her talking ... (N)
'Can we just pretend for a moment, sir, that this is true?'
'For the sake of argument?' 'Well, for the sake of not having an argument, sir...' (TG) 'Can't argue with the truth, sir.'
'In my experience, Vimes, you can argue with anything.' (J) Igneous had always found the general denial was more reliable than the specific refutation. (FC)
Dwarfs were said to be the keenest of financial negotiators, second only in acumen and effrontery to little old ladies. (SM)
'I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire,' said Miss Tick. 'There may be no survivors.' (WFM)
Verence suddenly looked like a man who had been expecting a frontal attack and suddenly finds nasty things happening behind him. (LL)
Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field – if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there. (LL)
She drew herself up to her full height, which wasn’t really worth the effort. (M)
… no one can outstare a witch, ‘cept a goat, of course. (ER)
‘If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,’ said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege. (ER)
... Sergeant Colon did know the meaning of the word "irony". He thought it meant "sort of like iron". (RM)
Arguing over petty details at times of dimensional emergency was a familiar wizardly trait. (RM)
There were so many pieces of Mrs Cake's mind left around the city now that it was quite surprising that there was enough left to power Mrs Cake but, strangely enough, the more pieces of her mind she gave away the more there seemed to be left. (RM)
… you didn’t argue with a man with an axe, no matter how wise he seemed. (JD)
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