‘Nobody can tell wizards what to do – except of course other wizards! And even then they will argue and find fault, hurrah!’ (JD)
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"Two dwarfs is an argument, three dwarfs is a war." (RS)
'Any three dwarfs having a sensible conversation will always end up having four points of view'. (RS)
… despite a nationwide debate it appeared that no two Frenchmen could agree exactly on what being French did mean. Although another school of thought held that arguing about what made you French was part of what made you French. (LE)
‘I have to negotiate this problem, and, believe me, it’s going to take a lot of quid for the pro quo.’ (Sn)
‘Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.’ (Sn)
There was no point in arguing with Sybil, because even if you thought you’d won, it would turn out, by some magic unavailable to husbands, that you had, in fact, been totally misinformed. (Sn)
'Any man who interferes in the arguin' of women is gonnae find both of them jumping up and doon on him in a matter o' seconds.' (ISWM)
'And you are telling me I'm wrong. Are you?'
'I would rather you thought of me as suggesting a way in which you could be even more right.' (UA) … arguing with her friend was like punching mist. (UA)
Ponder plunged on, because when you have dived off a cliff your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity. (UA)
It was amazing, he thought, how people would argue against figures on no better basis than 'they must be wrong'.
'I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures,' said the Senior Wrangler sourly. 'That is so,' said Ponder, 'but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance'. (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)
He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition. (N)
The wizards, once they understood the urgency of a problem and then had lunch, and argued about the pudding, could actually work quite fast. Their method of finding a solution, as far as the Patrician could see, was by way of creative hubbub. If the question was, ‘What is the best spell for turning a book of poetry into a frog?’, then the one thing they would not do was look in any book with a title like Major Amphibian Spells in a Literary Environment: A Comparison. That would, somehow, be cheating. They would argue about it instead, standing around a blackboard, seizing the chalk from one another and rubbing out bits of what the current chalk-holder was writing before he’d finished the other end of the sentence. Somehow, though, it all seemed to work. (LH)
Wizards when faced with danger, would immediately stop and argue amongst themselves about exactly what kind of danger it was. By the time everyone in the party understood, either it had become the sort of danger where your options are so very, very clear that you instantly take of them or die, or it had got bored and gone away. Even danger has its pride. (LC)
... the real word for a group of witches is ‘an argument.' (W)
Sean knew his witches. It was best to give in right at the start. (TG)
'But that’s just a bit of superstition, isn’t it? Witches don’t have to come in threes.’
‘Oh, no. Course not,’ said Nanny. ‘You can have any number up to about, oh, four or five.’ ‘What happens if there’s more, then. Something awful?’ ‘Bloody great row, usually,’ said Nanny. (CJ) You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument. (Ma)
... 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)
'I’ve given that viewpoint a lot of thought, sir, and reached the following conclusion: arseholes to the lot of ‘em, sir.' (FC)
When people say clearly something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all. (TT)
The dwarfs are Ankh-Morpork’s largest non-human ethnic group. They are acquisitive, argumentative and belligerent when drunk, and therefore fit seamlessly into city society. (PP)
... the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves. (Dig)
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