Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a stone. "Is it? Why?" asked Rincewind. How does he hold himself together, his mind screamed at him. Why doesn't he spill?

[Rincewind] drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

We're a dying race," said Kwartz sadly, as the party set off under the stars. "Young Jasper's the only pebble in our tribe. We suffer from philosophy, you know.

It's simply that in every crowd there's a twerp. All any twerp needs to do is protest loud and long, and he or she will get attention from other twerps who'll go along for the ride--after all, if such people didn't exist, the Ricki Lake Show wouldn't have an audience.

And one day Amber takes her troll’s dinner down to the cave and finds him—” Rock waved his hands in vague yet thoroughly descriptive motions “—with another lady troll. So she go home and get her club and come back and beat him to death, thump, thump, thump. ’Cos he was her troll and he done her wrong. Is very romantic song.