‘... it’s always useful to be friends with any witch.’ She smiled sweetly and added, ‘I’m feeling friendly at the moment ... but I might not later.’ (SC)
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‘Don’t meddle in the affairs of witches because they clout you around the ear.’ (ISWM)
‘Once a man gets a Feegle up his troosers, his time of trial and tribulation is only just beginning.’ (ISWM)
If you do not yet know who the Nac Mac Feegle are: 1) be grateful for your uneventful life; and 2) be prepared to beat a retreat if you hear anyone about as high as your ankles shout ‘Crivens!’ They are, strictly speaking, one of the faerie folk, but it is probably not a good idea to tell them this if you are looking forward to a future in which you still have your teeth. (ISWM)
‘I wish people would not be so careless about what they believe.’ (MR)
‘To be frank, the problem here is not that you are women. As such, that is. But you persist in maintaining that you are. You see? We can’t have that.’ (MR)
‘We must take advantage of the “tide of fortune”’.
‘I know about tides, sir. They leave little fish gaspin’.’ (MR) ... the brain treacherously does not stop thinking just because you want it to... (MR)
The trouble with Polly was that she had a mind that asked questions even when she really, really didn’t want to know the answers. (MR)
‘Goddesses can be a wee bit tricky.’ (W)
No one who met the Nac Mac Feegles ever forgot them, even if they tried hard. (W)
‘Sooner or later every curse is a prayer.’ (W)
When we break down, it all breaks down. (NW)
We’re going to get cheesed.*
* Like creamed, but it goes on for a lot longer. (NW) They landed. It's a short sentence, but contained a lot of incident. (LH)
'Thank you, Archchancellor, but I'm far too busy for you to help me,' he said. (LH)
... creatures that ambushed the Horde did so at the end of their lives. (LH)
'... it'd all gone myffic.'
'Mythic?' said schoolteacher Susan. 'Yep. With extra myff. And you can get into big trouble with myffic.' (TOT) 'Life's bad enough as it is without having to worry about invisible things you can't see.' (AM)
... if things went all pear-shaped in a hurry, one small dog had all the survival chances of a chocolate kettle on a very hot stove. (FE)
'... the midden has hit the windmill...' (FE)
'Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork.' (CJ)
... there was no knowing where it would of end. How it would end was a bit more certain. It would probably end badly. (Dig)
'When people are faced with lots of troubles and they don't know what to do, there's always someone ready to say anything, just to get some power,' said Grimma. (Dig)
... there is something hugely unlovable about sheep, a kind of mad, eye-rolling brainlessness smelling of damp wool and panic. Many religions extol the virtues of the meek, but Rincewind had never trusted them. The meek could turn very nasty at times. (LC)
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