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The following are some of the Old Jungle Sayings that have become a tradition in Phantom comics. A story cannot be a Phantom story without these sayings appearing more than once in a while. These sayings are in many ways responsible for the mystifying aura seen in Phantom stories.
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Sayings about the Phantom:
- The Phantom is rough with rough-necks.
- When the Phantom is rough, he is very rough.
- The Phantom has a thousand eyes and a thousand ears.
- Call the Phantom anywhere, and he will hear.
- Go into the jungle and call: the Phantom hears.
- The Phantom can be a dozen places at once.
- The Phantom moves as silently as a fog.
- The Phantom moves as silently as the jungle cat.
- The Phantom moves on cat's paws.
- Great cat is quick, the Phantom is quicker.
- The Phantom moves faster than a great cat, with the power of a charging bull elephant.
- The Phantom strikes like a thunderbolt but moves softer than a stalking great cat.
- When the Phantom strikes, lightning stands still.
- The Phantom moves faster than lightning flash.
- The Phantom moves faster than the eye can see.
- As for shooting, the Phantom can knock the flea off the ear of a warthog at 100 paces without hurting the beast.
- The Phantom has the strength of ten tigers.
- Phantom made of rock.
- When the jungle sleeps, the Phantom wakes.
- There are times when the Phantom leaves the jungle and walks the streets of the town like an ordinary man.
- You never find the Phantom, he finds you.
- When the Phantom asks, you answer.
- No man can refuse the voice of the Phantom.
- The Phantom freezes your blood, makes cowards out of strong men.
- The voice of the Phantom turns blood into ice.
- The voice of the angry Phantom freezes a tiger's blood.
- When the Phantom is angry, tiger's blood chills.
- When the Phantom is angry, the lion trembles.
- When the Phantom is angry, the jungle shakes.
- When the Phantom is angry, his blows sound like thunder.
- The Phantom's fists dart like a bee, hit like a bull elephant.
- The Phantom's steel hands can break men like straws.
- When the Phantom scares them, they stay scared.
- Better to stare into the tiger's eyes than into the cold eyes of the angry Phantom.
- The Phantom's fury is like a volcanic explosion.
- Furious Phantom is a sight to behold.
- Pirates to Phantom, like red flag to bull.
- Only a fool crosses the Phantom.
- Never take aim at the Phantom.
- The Phantom has the wisdom of elephants.
- The Phantom is a man of few words but wiser than Solomon.
- Where the Phantom is, the law's long arm reaches even to the halls of princes.
- The Phantom will never refuse a challenge.
- The Phantom's life is a lonely one.
- In China it is said, man who looks on Phantom's naked face must surely die.
- He who sees the Phantom's face, dies a horrible death.
- Man saw Phantom's face, flesh fell out of the man's bones, all at once.
Other Sayings:
- Laughter can destroy the tyrant.
- It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- A whisper can go around the earth.
- Biggest tree makes most noise when it falls.
- He who comes to Keela Wee without love is buried there.
- Nothing likes to get hit on the nose.
- In Phantom country, it is said that a woman clad in jewels may walk without fear.
- The Phantom's great stallion, Hero, moves on the wings of the wind.