One thing Vimes was learning fast was the natural vindictiveness of old ladies, who had no sense of fair play when it came to fighting soldiers; give a granny a spear and a hole to jab it through, and young men on the other side were in big trouble. (NW)
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Wizards when faced with danger, would immediately stop and argue amongst themselves about exactly what kind of danger it was. By the time everyone in the party understood, either it had become the sort of danger where your options are so very, very clear that you instantly take of them or die, or it had got bored and gone away. Even danger has its pride. (LC)
But …if you put aside for the moment the certainty that something would definitely go horribly wrong, it looked foolproof. The trouble was that wizards were such ingenious fools. (IT)
She was a witch, after all. Scratch any witch and…well, you’d be facing a witch you’d just scratched. (SLF)
People are always giving things to witches. It’s very nice of them. It’s possible that they think it is lucky to do so, but it’s probable that they know it’s unlucky not to. (PP)
The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of mind-numbing terror that filled Colon’s head was telling him that he was so far out of his depth that the fish had lights on their noses. (FE)
Vampires were fine right up until the point where, suddenly, they weren’t. (Th)
If you think everything’s going right, something’s going wrong that you haven’t heard about yet. (Dig)
... trouble hit Mr Lipwig like a big wave hitting a flotilla of ducks. Afterwards there was no wave but there was still a lot of duck. (MM)
'Commander Vimes says, when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, just keep pulling until you find the meatball.' (MM)
'I can assure you that if I had, as your ill-assumed street patois has it, “dropped you in it” you would fully understand all meanings of “drop” and have an unenviable knowledge of “it"'. (MM)
What harm can it do to find out? It’s a question that has left bruises down the centuries, even more that ‘It can’t hurt if I only take one’ and ‘It’s all right if you only do it standing up.' (MM)
There are times when ‘It does not get any better than this’ does not spring to mind. (MM)
Next day was a good day, right up to the point where it became a tight little bowl of terror. (W)
She was smiling, but with Granny Weatherwax that did not necessarily mean something nice was happening. (W)
'I couldn’t tell you even if I knew, because of zer Freedom of zer Press.’
‘Freedom to pour oil on a flame, d’you mean?’ Vimes demanded. ‘That’s freedom for you,’ said Otto. No vun said it vas nice.' (Th) It started out as a perfect day. It would soon enough be an imperfect one, he knew, but just for these few minutes it was possible to pretend that it wouldn’t be. (Th)
... as the dwarfs say, where there is trouble you will always find a troll. (Th)
Even if it’s not your fault it’s your responsibility. (HFS)
'I don’t like it. It’s too quiet.’
‘No sir, no sir,’ said Rincewind. ‘That’s not the time not to like it. The time not to like it is when it’s suddenly as noisy as all hell, sir.' (TG) 'In an unknown situation always hope for savages. They tend to be quite polite and hospitable provided you don’t make any sudden moves or eat the wrong sort of animals.’
‘What sort of animals?’ said Ridcully. ‘Taboo, sir. They tend to be related. Or something.’ ‘That sounds rather…sophisticated,’said Ponder suspiciously. Savages often are,’ said Rincewind. ‘It’s the civilised people that give you trouble. They always want to drag you off somewhere and ask you unsophisticated questions.' (TG) ... trouble is always easy to find, when you have enough people looking for it. (NW)
‘It’s just a walk in the park!’
‘You mean people are going to mug us and steal all our money and kick us viciously in the ribs?’ said Rincewind. (LH) Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put at the top of the list ‘the man who arrived just before you’. (LH)
'It’ll end in trouble, my lord,’ said Ridcully. He’d found it a good general comment in practically any debate. Besides, it was so often true.
Lord Vetinari sighed. ‘In my experience, practically everything does,’ he said. ‘That is the nature of things. All we can do is sing as we go.' (TT) |
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