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''Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! }}
** The original meaning of "despair" was that nobody could hope to equal his achievements, but seeing the statue in ruins, the reader might "despair" to find that all beings are mortal.
* Nanny Ogg from the ''[[Discworld]]'' series by [[Terry Pratchett]] enjoys using these, although according to ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', hers are usually "single entendres, and proud of it". Then there's this gem:
{{quote|'''Nanny Ogg:''' 'S called the Vieux River.
'''Granny Weatherwax:''' Yes?
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** The witches aren't alone with this. Mustrum Ridcully calls the University organ "Our Mighty Organ". Much to the dismay of the rest of the wizards.
*** It's possible that one's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|purposefully done by Ridcully]].
** There's also a non-sexual double meaning in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', when Sybil is musing on Vimes' berserk rage: "There'd been the case with that little girl and those men over in Dolly Sisters, and when they broke in he'd found that one of them had stolen one of her shoes, and she'd heard Detritus say that if he hadn't been there only Sam would have walked out of the room alive." Vimes insists that he's never deliberately killed anyone, so probably the obvious meaning is the true one here, but one can imagine that Sybil is pretty damn worried over the phrasing.
*** Speaking of ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', there's also a subplot concerning an industrialist who gets murdered in his own condom factory. There's as much Double Entendre as you'd expect; enough, indeed, that the word "condom" isn't mentioned once and doesn't need to be.
**** That's because in ''Discworld'' the handy little thing has been named after its inventor as a 'sonky'. One of those [[Inherently Funny Words]].
** In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', Vimes tells newspaper editor William de Worde that it looks as though the President of the Guild of Shoemakers and Leatherworkers will be the next Patrician, and names the man and gives the address of his shop. The guy doesn't sell shoes, but what he does sell comes under the heading of leatherwork, and there isn't a Guild of Makers of Little Jiggly Things for him to belong to instead.
** In ''[[Discworld/Snuff|Snuff]]'', Vimes keeps trying to use these, but Sybil curtails him.
* ''[[Thursday Next]]'' villains have these in their names (Jack Schitt even gets lampshaded). As does Daphne Farquitt.
* One Robert Rankin novel featured a woman who communicated entirely in Double Entendre, culminating in "that would be the blow job", referring to the job of blowing into a clogged nozzle to clear the blockage.
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