What were you supposed to do about girls? You had to keep away from them while you were a boy, but he'd heard that when you were a man you got other instructions. (N)
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One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man who has, for some reason, to disguise himself as a woman will apparently become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men with. As the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results. (J)
The old bards said they got better as they got older, although the old men tend to say this sort of thing regardless of daily experience. (SM)
Could they do it? They were old men. And then he thought, Yes, they are old men. They have been old men for a long time, which means they have learned many things. Like lying, and being crafty and, most importantly, dissembling. (SC)
‘…there’s no male witches, only silly men’ (ER)
'You could learn all you need to know about human males from one miserable specimen.' (LW)
'All men are rudimentary creatures who respond to symbols a lot more basic than a habit and a crucifix.' (LW)
Moist put on his meek face as only husbands and puppies can do ... (RS)
It’s just like I’ve always said – women have always had a greater stake in technology than have men. We’d still be living in trees, otherwise. Piped water, electric lighting, stoves that you don’t need to shove wood into – I reckon that behind half the great inventors in history were their wives, nagging them into fiding a cleaner way of doing the chores. (BOS)
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)
'The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord.'
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. 'Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.' (UA) The right tone from a woman with her arms folded always bounces an answer out of an unprepared man before he has time to think, and even before he has time to think up a lie. (UA)
… a man could be dogmatic, and that was all right, or he could be stupid, and no harm done, but stupid and dogmatic at the same time was too much … (UA)
… any female of any sapient species knows the look of a man who has nothing very much to do in an environment that, for this time, is clearly occupied by and totally under the control of females. It looked as though they were on guard. (UA)
'I thought they’d be better at it than men. Trouble was, they were better than the men at being like men.' (MR)
'Men’s minds work different from ours, see. Their magic’s all numbers and angles and edges and what the stars are doing, as if that really mattered. It’s all power. It’s all-’ Granny paused, and dredged up her favourite word to describe all she despised in wizardry, ‘-jommetry.' (ER)
Attractive men were not in plentiful supply in Lancre, where licking your hand and smoothing your hair down before taking a girl out was considered swanky. (CJ)
In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
*This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution. (E) She had the slightly wistful, slightly hungry look that so many women of a certain age wore when they’d decided to trust in gods because of the absolute impossibility of continuing to trust in men. (MM)
... trolls didn’t have a word for machismo in the same way that puddles don’t have a word for water. (MM)
'Is Hubert quite … normal?’ said Adora Belle, as they climbed the marble staircases towards dinner.
‘By the standards of obsessive men who don’t get out into the sunlight?’ said Moist. ‘Pretty normal, I’d say.’ ‘But he acted as if he’d never seen a woman before!’ 'He’s just not used to things that don’t come with a manual,’ said Moist. (MM) 'Your not going to tell me they built fifty-foot high killer golems, are you?’
‘Only a man would think of that.’ ‘It’s our job,’ said Moist. (MM) 'Shoes, men, coffins…never accept the first one you see.' (Th)
'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)
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