Small Print Quotes

“Small minds seem to often miss the small print.

Then they tend to make a big fuse about how they got taken advantage of and screwed over by the very things they agreed to.”
― Loren Weisman

“We will not be replacing Miss Strife,' Miss Plazenby observed, gazing at names, subjects and points where there might be an occasional overlap or redundancy. 'Our games mistress is quite capable of directing the ferocity of this year's intake into the relevant channels. I am thinking more of the higher orders of philosophic thought, the play of words, the bedevilment of the mind through cunning argument. I fear there will be a greater need for that this coming year.'

'I do not think we have ever secured the services of insurance sellers in any of our first year modules before. Have you a particular company in mind?'

'Though fending off the wiles of advertising and small-printology is a useful skill,' Miss Plazenby admitted, 'I was thinking more along the lines of subtlety.'

'The smiling backstabber?'

'Yes. Exactly that. Our girls need to understand that here in Frangea there are people who will say one thing, mean another and then do a third, all in the most pleasant way possible, as if it were a favour.'

'That sounds a little like Sophistic Methodology,' her assistant said, trying to raise an eyebrow while frowning at the same time and finding it beyond her face scrunching skills. (Chapter 6)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Lonely Ghost