It was strange that a man among men was so helpless against a woman. He had something beaten and pitiful about him as he lay there. I thought it boded ill for us.
"A word of advice: never fall in love during a total eclipse."
Sybil: And you will try to look dignified, won't you?
Vimes: Yes, dear.
Sybil: What will you try to look?
Vimes: Dignified, dear.
Sybil: And please try to be diplomatic.
Vimes: Yes, dear.
Sybil: What will you try to be?
Vimes: Diplomatic, dear.
Sybil: You're using your "henpecked" voice, Sam.
Vimes: Yes, dear.
Sybil: You know that's not fair.
Vimes: No, dear.
—Sir Samuel and Lady Sybil Vimes in
Discworld
Amy: Do you get the feeling that you're forgetting something important, something incredibly big and monumental?
Rory: ...yep.
Amy: Are you just saying that because you're afraid of me?
Rory: ...yep.
Amy: I love you.
(Gorbachev smiles evilly and says something in Russian to his aide)
A man can either be a happy rabbit or a lonely lion.
—Arabic proverb
But in the town it was well known
when they get home at night their fat psychapathic wives
would thrash them within inches of their lives
