Colon was a sizeist, at least when it came to people smaller than himself. (GG)
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... You walk along the Streets at Night shouting, It's Twelve O'clock and All's Well. I said, What if it is not all well, and he said, You bloody find another street. (GG)
… Nanny believed that a bit of thrilling and pointless terror was an essential ingredient of the magic of childhood. (WS)
… it’s amazing what you can do with a kind word, provided you’ve also got a big stick. (JD)
‘I get vertigo just listening to tall stories.’ (S)
Rincewind sagged. ‘Why me?’ he moaned.
For the good of the University. For the honour of wizardry. For the sake of the world. For your heart’s desire. And I’ll freeze you alive if you don’t. Rincewind breathed a sigh almost of relief. He wasn’t good on bribes, or cajolery, or appeals to his better nature. But threats, now, threats were familiar. He knew where he stood with threats. (S) He opened his eyes. The girl was wearing a demure white lace dress with fetching puffed sleeves. He opened his mouth. He realised with absolute clarity that up until now the trouble he had been in was simple, modest and nothing he couldn’t talk his way out of given a decent chance or, failing that, a running start. (S
‘Death doesn’t frighten me. It’s what comes after.’ (M)
He’d never plucked up the courage to try Albert’s porridge, which led a private life of its own in the depths of its saucepan and ate spoons. (M)
What really terrified him about the sea was that the only thing between him and the horrible things that lived at the bottom of it was water. (ER)
It was the sort of smile that wolves ran away from. (ER)
... the other wizards followed him, falling over each other in their eagerness to be last. (LF)
'We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.'
It fooled Rincewind. (COM) A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that, if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct, it was right at the front ... (COM)
Rincewind opened his mouth to reply but felt the words huddle together in his throat, reluctant to emerge into a world that was rapidly going mad. (COM)
… you didn’t argue with a man with an axe, no matter how wise he seemed. (JD)
'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. I seriously think they think that it's their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.'
'Oh, yes, I know they do that,' said Glenda. 'How would people get worried if they weren't told how to be?' (UA) There is something vaguely worrying about the word 'reckon' that leaves the ear, for many hard to understand reasons, wishing it was something else a little more certain and a little less frightening. (RS)
… where there is panic, profit isn’t far behind. (LE)
There are moments when terror is like a treacle that slows down time. (LE)
He smiled the smile of a policeman, which was only slightly better than the smile of a tiger …. (Do)
Not one muscle had moved anywhere on the body of Dodger, if you didn’t count the sphincter. (Do)
… I’m too damn scared to tell Feeney that I’m too damn scared. Hah, the story of my life, too much of a damn coward to be a coward! (Sn)
…Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’ … (Sn)
The Nac Mac Feegle could be pretty worrying to those who did not know them very well, although now she thought about it, they could be pretty worrying however long you had known them; a Feegle in your life very soon changed it. (ISWM)
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