'Dwarfs are very argumentative, sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree.' (FE)
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... Dwarfs have thousands of words for 'gold' but will use any of them in an emergency, such as when they see some gold that doesn't belong to them. (SM)
... for a dwarf the whole point of having a pile of gold was, well, to have a pile of gold. (SM)
Dwarfs respected learning, provided they didn't have to experience it. (SM)
Dwarfs were said to be the keenest of financial negotiators, second only in acumen and effrontery to little old ladies. (SM)
‘Dwarfs and trolls get along like a house on fires’, said Nobby. ‘Ever been in a burning house, miss?’ (MA)
‘Sounds like “Ding-dong, dingdong”.’
‘That’s a dwarf song all right,’ said Nanny. ‘They’re the only people who can make a hiho last all day.’ (WA) '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)
And then the King was running towards the flames, adopting the traditional dwarf strategy of running at the enemy with as much weaponry as you could swing. (RS).
"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)
The traditional enmity between dwarfs and trolls has been explained away by one simple statement: one species is made of rock, the other is made of miners. But in truth the enmity is there because no one can remember when it wasn’t, and so it continues because everything is done in completely justifiable revenge for the revenge that was taken in response to the revenge for the vengeance that was taken earlier, and so on. Humans never do this sort of thing, much. (BOS)
'… dwarfs, while the salt of the earth, don't have much of a grasp of small numbers …' (UA)
Dwarfs have a straightforward approach to alcoholic drink: beer, mead, wine, sherry – one large size fits all. (UA)
A dwarf on the up and up was really on his uppers, and upper-class dwarfs were lower class. A dwarf who was rich, healthy and had respect and his own rat farm justifiably felt at rock bottom and was held in low esteem. When you talked to dwarfs, you turned your mind upside down. (UA)
It was a brave female dwarf who advertised the fact, in a society where the wearing of even a decent, floor-length, leather-and-chain-mail dress instead of leggings positioned you, on the moral map, on the far side of Tawnee and her hard-working co-workers at the Pink Pussy Cat Club. But introduce a gurgling kid into the room and you could spot them instantly, for all their fearsome clang and beards you could lose a rat in. (Th)
... as the dwarfs say, where there is trouble you will always find a troll. (Th)
... the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works. (TT)
It wasn’t that the dwarfs ignored sex, it really didn’t seem important to them. If humans thought the same way, his job would be a lot simpler. (FE)
'My name’s Casanunda,’ he said. ‘I’m reputed to be the world’s greatest lover. What do you think?’
Nanny Ogg looked him up and down or, at least, down and further down. ‘You’re a dwarf,’ she said. ‘Size isn’t important.' (WA) 'You can take the dwarf out of the dark, but you can’t take the dark out of the dwarf.' (Th)
The Bursar tried to look the young dwarf sternly up and down, although this was a pretty pointless intimidatory tactic to
use on dwarfs since they had very little up to look down from. (TT) Dwarf bread was made as a meal of last resort and also as a weapon and a currency. (FE)
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)
There’s a dwarfish saying: ‘All trees are felled at ground-level’ - although this is said to be an excessively bowdlerized translation for a saw which more literally means, ‘When his hands are higher than your head, his groin is level with your teeth.' (FC)
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