The allegiance of elves is spiderweb thin and the currency of Fairyland is glamour. (SC)
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'Thank you, Archchancellor, but I'm far too busy for you to help me,' he said. (LH)
'We're on the same side here!'
'No. We're just on two different sides that happen to be side by side.' (TT) The senior wizards gathered round, ready to help those less fortunate than themselves remain that way. (H)
Washing-up is a badge of membership anywhere. (Ma)
'I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire,' said Miss Tick. 'There may be no survivors.' (WFM)
‘Dwarfs and trolls get along like a house on fires’, said Nobby. ‘Ever been in a burning house, miss?’ (MA)
You’re average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There’s a conflict of dominant personalities. There’s a group of ringleaders without a ring. There’s the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is ‘Don’t do what you will, do what I say’. The natural size of a coven is one. (WA)
… it’s amazing what you can do with a kind word, provided you’ve also got a big stick. (JD)
Like pillion passengers since the dawn of time, he persisted in leaning the wrong way. (ER)
‘I have to negotiate this problem, and, believe me, it’s going to take a lot of quid for the pro quo.’ (Sn)
'Pick the teams alternately so one of you ends up with the weird kid and the other with the fat kid. Some of the fastest mathematics of all time has been achieved by team captains trying not to end up with the weird kid …' (UA)
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)
The reason that wizards didn’t rule the Disc was quite simple. Hand any two wizards a piece of rope and they would instinctively pull in opposite directions. (S)
Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. (HFS)
'Are they intelligent?’ said Snibril.
‘Together they are. Individually, they’re stupid. Hah! The opposite of us, really.' (CP) Senior wizards of Unseen University are masters of dynamic inactivity. But when danger threatens they can be relied upon to pull together, although not necessarily, it must be said, in the same direction.
It has been pointed out that while they have understood that the first step on the path to wisdom is to become as a small child, they haven’t grasped that there is a second step. (PP) 'Ach, it’s a terrible thing for a man when his wumman gangs up on him wi’ a toad,’ said Rob, shaking his head. (HFS)
Usually she got her own way and he was happy to give it to her, but the unspoken agreement was that when he really
insisted, she listened. It’s a married couple thing. (Th) 'I knew the two of you would get along like a house on fire.’ Screams, flames, people running for safety ... (P)
Against the whole of human experience Twoflower believed that if only people would talk to each other, have a few drinks, exchange pictures of their grandchildren, maybe take in a show or something, then everything could be sorted out. (LF)
'In return, however,’ said the Patrician, ‘I must ask you not to upset Commander Vimes.’ He gave a little cough. ‘More than necessary.’
‘I’m sure we can pull together, sir.’ ‘Oh, I do hope not, I really do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.’ He smiled. ‘It’s the only way to make progress.' (TT) 'He says that if the faculty get to know one another better, they’ll be a happier, more efficient team.’
‘But they do know one another. They’ve known one another for ages! That’s why they don’t like one another very much.' (TG) Spelter thought: patronage. He’d heard the term used, though never within the University, and he knew
it meant getting those above you to give you a leg up. Of course, no wizard would normally dream of giving a colleague a leg up unless it was in order to catch them on the hop. (S) |
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