Цитаты из книги Making Money

Да как он смеет подкупать меня, подумал Мойст. Вообще-то, это было второй мыслью, мыслью в скором-времени-владельца золотистой цепочки. Его первой мыслью, приветом от старого доброго Мойста, было: «Да как он смеет подкупать мне так дешево».

— И мы прошлой ночью поговорили с некоторыми ребятами из Почты, и они сказали, что мы можем доверять слову мистера Липовига, потому что он прямой, как штопор. — Штопор? — в шоке повторил Бент. — Да, мы про это тоже спросили, — сказал Теневой. — И они ответили, что действует он закручено, но это ничего, потому что чертовски хорошо вытаскивает пробки!

— Ты запускаешь молнию ему прямо в голову! — воскликнул Мойст. — Это варварство! — Нет, фэр. У варваров нет таких вовмовнофтей

'Necromancy is a Fine Art?' said Moist.

'None finer, young man. Get things just a tiny bit wrong and the spirits of the vengeful dead may enter your head via your ears and blow your brains out down your nose.'

The eyes of Moist and Adora Belle focused on Dr Hicks like those of an archer on his target. He waved his hands frantically and mouthed, 'Not very often!' You measured common sense with a ruler, other people measured it with a potato.

Adora Belle gave him a lopsided look. 'I thought you'd suggest that," so I ordered sheep's head. He was overjoyed.'

'Sheep's head?' said Moist gloomily. 'You know I hate food that stares back. I won't even look a sardine in the face.'

'He promised to blindfold it.'

'Oh, good.'

Students. Love them or hate them, you're not allowed to hit them with a shovel.

People don't mind a long queue if they can see that it's moving.

It must be about four o'clock, thought Moist. Four o'clock! I hate it when there are two four o'clocks in the same day…

Subdivision was rife in the city now. The room was exactly twice the size of the bed, and it was a narrow bed. Three people in here would have to know one another well. Four would know one another well whether they wanted to or not.

Mr Bent liked counting. You could trust numbers, except perhaps for pi.

On a desert island a bag of vegetables is worth more than gold, in the city gold is more valuable than the bag of vegetables.

When you don't know what to do, comb your hair and clean your shoes.

'And she's done you a great favour.' 'Favour? I was shot at!' 'That was just the Assassins' Guild dropping you a note to say they are watching you.' 'There were two shots!' 'Possibly for emphasis?'

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".

How dare he try to bribe me, thought Moist. In fact, that was his second thought, that of the soon-to-be wearer of a gold-ish chain. His first thought, courtesy of the old Moist, was: how dare he try to bribe me so small.

'How long does a dog live?' 'An ordin'ry dog?' said Nobby Nobbs. 'Or a dog who stands between a bunch of Lavishes and another fortune?'

Moist von Lipwig is a man of appearances. I'm sure he believes everything he said, but one must look beyond the surface to the Lipwig beneath, an honest soul with a fine criminal mind.'

A nearly married man was steadfast and dependable and always ready to hand his nearly wife an ashtray.