There were really only four types of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches. (ISWM)
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The senior wizards, eying the chocolate biscuits on the tray brought in by the tea lady, listened with as much attention as could be expected from wizards momentarily afflicted with chocolate starvation. (JD)
Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. (LC)
When he was a boy, Ponder Stibbons had imagined that wizards would be powerful democrats-gods able to change the whole world at the flick of a finger, and then he'd grown up and found that they were tiresome old men who worries about the state of their feet and, in harm's way, would even bicker about the origin of the phrase 'in harm's way'.
It had never struck him that evolution works in all kinds of ways. There were still quite deep scars in old buildings that showed what happened when you had the other kind of wizard. (LC) He was aware that he had their full attention, something that wizards did not often give. Usually they defined 'listening' as a period in which you worked out what you were going to say next. It was disconcerting. (LC)
A wizard without a hat was just a sad man with a suspicious taste in clothes. (LC)
Cunning in younger wizards is not automatically applauded in their elders. (DW)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially simian ones. They're not all that subtle. (LL)
Unseen University was used to eccentricity among the faculty. After all, humans derive the notions of what it means to be a normal human being by constant reference to the humans around them, and when those humans are other wizards the spiral can only wiggle downwards. (SM)
'A wizard's only a priest without a god and a damp handshake ...' (LL)
The Librarian indicated with some surprisingly economical gestures that most wizards would not find their own bottom with both hands. (GG)
A wizard never had friends, at least not friends who were wizards. It needed a different word. Ah yes, that was it. Enemies. But a very different class of enemies. Gentlemen. (S)
It takes more than a bit of magic and someone being blown to smoke in front of him to put a wizard off his food. (S)
… senior wizards tended to look upon actual magic as a bit beneath them. They tended to prefer administration, which was safer and nearly as much fun, and also big dinners. (S)
‘…there’s no male witches, only silly men’ (ER)
An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it
ran, he is tired of life. (LF) Nowhere outside a trades union conference fraternal benefit night can so much mutual distrust and suspicion be found as among a gathering of senior enchanters. (LF)
Arguing over petty details at times of dimensional emergency was a familiar wizardly trait. (RM)
No self-respecting wizard would be seen in public without a pointy hat. But it could make going through low doorways a bit tricky, so they often developed bad knees in later life due to all the crouching down. (DCC)
‘Nobody can tell wizards what to do – except of course other wizards! And even then they will argue and find fault, hurrah!’ (JD)
… a wizard could trust you because of the hellish future he could unleash on you if his trust was betrayed. (UA)
Wizards were competitive. It was part of wizardry. Wizards have no more idea of a friendly game than cats have of a friendly mouse. (UA)
Food was their cup of tea, and if possible their slice of cake too. (UA)
Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out. (UA)
A wizard may be safely defined as a large ego which comes to a point at the top. That is why wizards do not blend well. That would mean looking like other people, and wizards do not wish to look like other people. Wizards aren’t other people. (TG)
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